'What I've learned is to never shut up.'
But just hours after it was announced that Lithat has now become a global health emergency, anger and grief have erupted in China where citizens took to social media to vent their frustrations over the government's handling of the epidemic and portraying Li as a martyr of the crisis.Another post read,"What I've learned is to never shut up."
File Photo: Dr. Li Wenliang, the Chinese whistleblower who warned the public of a potential 'SARS-like' disease in December 2019, is seen in this photo after he contracted the coronavius.After news broke of Li's death at a hospital in Wuhan, China, the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak, the hashtags #WuhanGovernmentOwesDr.LiWeliangAnApology and #WeWantFreedomOfSpeech spread on Weibo and WeChat, another popular social media site in China.
Soon after Li's death was announced, a makeshift memorial sprang up outside the Wuhan Central Hospital.In Hong Kong, a semi-autonomous city of China, where ongoing pro-democracy protests have melded with demonstrations against the government's handling of the coronavirus, mourners displayed a blown-up photo of Li at a vigil.
Passengers wear face masks as they arrive on a flight from Asia at Los Angeles International Airport on Jan. 29, 2020.World Health Organization officials said that as of Friday morning the death toll from the coronavirus increased overnight in China from 564 to 636 and that 31,203 other people in the country have been diagnosed with the virus.
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