Coronavirus Kills The Director Of A Hospital in Wuhan

Ankita Chetana |Feb 18, 2020

This morning, Chinese media announced a director of a hospital in Wuhan, the central point of coronavirus outbreak, passed away. Check out the details!

Dr. Liu Zhi Ming, the director of Wu Chang Hospital in Wuhan, Hubei of China passed away because of getting infected with coronavirus (Covid-19). According to China Central Television (CCTV), the 51-year-old doctor breathed his last at 10.30 a.m. on February 18th, 2020.

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Dr. Liu Zhi Ming (51 yrs) - Director of Wu Chang Hospital

Daily people stated that Dr. Liu is the first hospital administrator who passed away due to Covid-19. On February 14th, China Medical Committee declared the number of medical staff infected with coronavirus was 1,716 people. 6 of them died and nearly 90% of them are from the central point of Covid-19 – Hubei.

Up to February 11th, positive infected cases of medical staff cover 3,8% of the total cases in China. This has led to an enormous risk of getting infected with the virus for the doctors and nurses from the front line in Hubei when they lack protective guards.

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A doctor got infected with Covid-19 spread from his family member and died at the hospital

Prior to Dr. Liu’s demise, another doctor named Lin Zheng Bin was announced to be dead because of coronavirus on February 10th. He is a professor in organ transplantation and succeeded in implementing thousands of kidney transplantation cases when he was alive.

As per reports, Dr. Liu graduated from Wuhan Medical University in 1991 with his major in diagnosing and treating traumatic brain injury, brain tumors, and other brain diseases. He was called as an expert in neurosurgery and treatment.

When it came to the coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan, Wu Chang Hospital was one of the initial hospitals to be indicated to treat patients infected with 2019-nCoV. Until date, the virus has reached and spread to over 73,000 people over the world. More than 1,800 people died and most of them are from Hubei, China.

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Updates on infected cases in China up to February 17th

Covid-19 infected cases in China have increased to 72,463 (counting to Feb 17th) with 1,886 new cases. The number of death cases of Covid-19 in this country is 1,868. This was also the first day in February to witness the number of new cases infected with Covid-19 under 2,000 cases.

Following a report, a new campaign for gathering people infected with the virus by the latest Secretary ò Wuhan is taking place in this city. It started on Feb 16th and aims at finishing within 3 days.

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