Wuhan's Senior Doctor Dies from Coronavirus; City Launches Sweeping Campaign
Amid the battle against Covid-19, Liu Zhiming, a senior doctor in Wuhan, has tragically succumbed to the virus. Authorities in Wuhan are intensifying efforts to track and isolate infected patients, with new measures including house-to-house checks, mandatory testing for suspected cases, and setting up quarantine centers across the city. The death of another medical professional, Xu Depu, underscores the challenges faced in containing the outbreak. Makeshift facilities are being rapidly established to accommodate patients showing mild symptoms. The city is mobilizing all resources, including converting buildings into temporary care centers, to address the escalating crisis.
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One of Wuhans most senior doctors has died after contracting the coronavirus as authorities began a sweeping campaign inside the city to seek out patients infected with the virus. Sweeping:
Liu Zhiming had taken part in the battle against the virus from the start and had made important contributions in fighting and controlling Covid-19, the Wuhan municipal health commission said. municipal :
During that process, unfortunately he became infected and passed away at 10.54 Tuesday morning at the age of 51 after all-out efforts to save him failed , the commission said.
Confirmation also emerged of the death last Thursday of Xu Depu, the former director of the Ezhou city Chinese medicine hospital in Hubei province. A nurse at the hospital confirmed his death on Tuesday, according to reports in state media.
Chinese state media reported new house-to-house checks in Wuhan, a city of 11 million people at the centre of the outbreak, that aimed to seek out and round up all infected patients. round up:
State media said anyone suspected of having the virus would face mandatory testing and anyone who had close contact with virus patients would be put under quarantine.
According to Chutian Daily, a Wuhan newspaper, 10 quarantine centres similar to the makeshift Fangcang hospital will be set up across eight districts in the city, providing an additional 11,400 beds for people showing mild symptoms of infection. makeshift: Mild:
Buildings in factories, industrial estates and transport centres were being converted into makeshift centres for housing patients.
The reports said all communities and villages would be placed under around- the-clock closed-off management, in effect putting them under lockdowns. closed-off : in effect: Lockdowns:
From Tuesday, anyone who buys cough medicine or treatments to bring down a fever in chemists or online will need to use their ID card, the state-funded site the Paper reported. chemists :
The citywide inspection campaign indicates an escalation of the situation in Wuhan, where former officials have been blamed for a cover-up that led to the rapid spread of the virus. Health officials have reported nearly 50,000 confirmed cases in Hubei alone.
The draconian measures come after two of the city s top leaders were sacked last week. Wuhan s new Communist party chief, Wang Zhonglin, issued the new decree, according to the Global Times, an English-language state newspaper. Draconian: Sacked: Decree:
Officials would carry out the inspection with the help of big data and artificial intelligence, it said, without providing further details.
An order on Monday from the Wuhan city legislature on winning the coronavirus war warned that people who refused mandatory measures such as reporting cases of fever and cough to their local residential committees or going into quarantine if they were sick would be subject to coercive measures . Legislature: Coercive:
The order also said those who delayed reporting cases or fabricate and spread false information on the epidemic would be punished.
Footage circulated on the website of the Changjiang Daily, a paper run by Wuhan s Communist party, showing officers in protective clothing knocking on people s doors and checking their temperatures.
