The number of new coronavirus infections has risen again in China for the first time in two days. The Chinese health authority had 3399 new cases of disease yesterday.
The number of new infections has fallen in recent days. The total number of corona infections in China is now at more than 34,500. Of these, 86 died yesterday, with which the virus has now claimed a total of 722 lives. The death rate remains at around 2 percent.
Anger for ophthalmologist
The majority of victims are the elderly, who often already had underlying heart or lung problems. One of the exceptions is the 34-year-old ophthalmologist Li Wenliang, who was one of the first to raise the alarm about the corona virus. He died Thursday. Experts think that the virus may have been particularly hard hit by the virus due to his intensive contact with patients.
How the Chinese government reported on his death and the fact that Li was accused at an earlier stage of spreading false rumors led to a lot of anger in the country.
“He gave his life for us,” people in Beijing say about Dr. Li’s death:
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