Wuhan doctor: 'China stopped me sounding COVID alarm'

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by Tiffany Bakker
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A Wuhan doctor has claimed that he and hospital colleagues were stopped from warning others about the looming COVID-19 disaster after they suspected the virus was highly transmissible back in early January, 2020.
The unidentified doctor has opened up about the crisis in a new BBC documentary on the 54 days between the first known case of coronavirus and the Wuhan lockdown. The doctor's testimony adds to growing evidence of Beijing's early attempts to cover up the virus outbreak, and bully medical personnel into keeping quiet.
Wuhan's central hospital is just a few kilometres from the Huanan wet market, ground zero of the coronavirus outbreak, and was quickly overrun by patients after the first cases appeared in December 2019. More than 200 people who worked at the hospital reportedly contracted the virus, and many, including whistleblower doctor Li Wenliang, died.

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