A Chinese doctor who warned against a coronavirus outbreak before it was officially recognized died of the virus on Friday, triggering a wave of public mourning and rare expressions of anger towards the government online.
The death of Li Wenliang, the opthalmologist who sounded the alarm,
came as Chinese President Xi Jinping assured his U.S. counterpart that China was doing all it could to contain the virus that has killed almost 640 people.
China was gradually achieving results and was confident it could defeat the epidemic with no long-term economic consequences, Xi told President Donald Trump in a telephone call, according to state television.
China’s central bank vowed further support for the world’s second-biggest economy, with the outbreak expected to knock 2 percentage points, or more, off its first-quarter growth, from 6%, analysts say.
Chinese stocks had their worst week since May, while elsewhere in Asia, financial markets slipped after several days of gains.
The death of Li, 34, sparked an outpouring of grief on social media. He was among eight people reprimanded by police in the city of Wuhan, the epicenter of the flu-like contagion in central Hubei province, for spreading “illegal and false” information about it.
Li’s social media warnings of a new “SARS-like” coronavirus - a reference to Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), which killed almost 800 people around the world in 2002-2003 after it originated in China - triggered the wrath of police.
China was accused of trying to cover up SARS.
- Reuters
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