Wuhan hospital director dies of coronavirus

OVERSTRETCHED. This photo taken on February 17, 2020 shows medical staff members working at an exhibition center converted into a hospital in Wuhan in China's central Hubei province. Photo by STR/AFP

BEIJING, China – A hospital director at the epicenter of China's virus epidemic died Tuesday, February 18, state media said, the latest medical worker to fall victim to theThe COVID-19 virus, which is believed to have originated in Wuhan late last year, has spread to more than 72,000 people andLiu Zhiming, the director of Wuchang Hospital in Wuhan, died Tuesday morning after"all-out rescue efforts failed," state broadcaster CCTV reported.

Liu's death was initially reported by Chinese media and bloggers shortly after midnight on Tuesday – but the stories were later deleted and replaced with reports that doctors were still attempting to save him., who had been punished by authorities for sounding the alarm about the virus in late December.against the authorities, who were accused of mishandling the crisis.

People took to social media once more to mourn Liu on Tuesday, with many users on the Twitter-like Weibo platform drawing comparisons between Liu's death and Li's, which was also initially reported by state media and then denied hours before being finally confirmed again. Doctors in Wuhan face shortages of masks and protective bodysuits, with some even wearing makeshift hazmat suits and continuing to work despite showing respiratory symptoms, because of a lack of medical staff, health workers have told AFP.

Doc4Dead this is so sad. 🙁

So now even the hospital administrators are dying . yeah this is really under control

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