Chinese internet users flooded social media with an outpouring of grief, calling Li a hero, a victim and a martyr. They demanded apologies from those who had arrested him and asked that the national flag be flown at half-staff. His death was the latest tremor in an unprecedented crisis that has spread beyond public health to public trust in China. More than 630 people have died, and reports abound of sick Hubei residents who died “outside the numbers,” untested and thus uncounted within official coronavirus records. AdvertisementA doctor talks with a patient during his rounds at the ward of a quarantine zone in Wuhan, the epicentre of the new coronavirus outbreak.

Source: Los Angeles Times February 06, 2020 22:09 UTC