{"id":27370,"date":"2021-01-26T09:01:47","date_gmt":"2021-01-26T00:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/26\/wuhan-doctor-china-authorities-stopped-me-sounding-alarm-on-covid"},"modified":"2021-01-26T09:01:47","modified_gmt":"2021-01-26T00:01:47","slug":"wuhan-doctor-china-authorities-stopped-me-sounding-alarm-on-covid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=27370","title":{"rendered":"Wuhan doctor: China authorities stopped me sounding alarm on Covid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Medic at heart of original outbreak tells BBC documentary staff were not allowed to wear masks despite concern about human transmission<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A doctor from the Wuhan hospital hit hardest by the Covid-19 epidemic has said he and colleagues suspected the virus was highly transmissible in early January last year, weeks before Chinese authorities admitted it, but were prevented from warning anyone.<\/p>\n<p>The doctor\u2019s testimony \u2013 in a new BBC documentary on the 54 days between the first known case of coronavirus and the Wuhan lockdown \u2013 adds to mounting evidence of Beijing\u2019s early attempts to cover up the virus outbreak, and intimidate healthworkers into staying quiet.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/26\/wuhan-doctor-china-authorities-stopped-me-sounding-alarm-on-covid\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Medic at heart of original outbreak tells BBC documentary staff were not allowed to wear masks despite concern about human transmissionCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageA doctor from the Wuhan hospital hit hardest by the Covid&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1643,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,1762,50,1066,238],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-bbc","category-china","category-coronavirus","category-media"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1643"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27370"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27373,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27370\/revisions\/27373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}