The whistleblower doctor who fell victim to China's coronavirus

Li Wenliang was at the forefront of warning about the disease and treating sufferers before the virus took his life in Wuhan

For most of his life, Li Wenliang was a successful but anonymous ophthalmologist, father and husband, based in the central Chinese city of Wuhan. But over the past two months, the 34-year-old had become a household name in China, known to hundreds of millions of people as the face and conscience of its spiralling coronavirus crisis.

Late on Thursday, after state-controlled media outlets reported that he had died days earlier, the news was met with an extraordinary nationwide outpouring of grief and anger on social media.

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