A doctor treating victims infected with the coronavirus in the Chinese city of Wuhan has died nine days after contracting the deadly infection.
According to a Reuters report, the doctor named?Liang Wudong, was working at the Hubei Xinhua Hospital and had been at the front line of the coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan city.?
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The 62-year-old man was a former ENT medic, who retired from the profession last June.?
According to a local reports, Wudong complained of tightening of the chest and feeling flustered when he was admitted to the hospital.?A detailed checkup revealed a chest infection, according to the Wuhan Evening Post.
Millions of Chinese doctors are fighting to contain the new coronavirus which originated at a seafood market in the central city of Wuhan. It was later named by the World Health Organisation as 2019-nCoV.?
Just as thousands of?possible patients, line up outside clinics and wait more than two hours to get checked, hospital workers themselves are joining them as confirmed cases.? ?
To keep up with the increasing number of cases, the government in China?has decided to build a 1,000-bed hospital in six days to fight the outbreak.?The rapid construction project is a reaction to hospitals running out of beds.?
That's not all, Chinese online retailers are running out of face masks and other medical supplies amid the growing demand. According to Mail Online,?factories that make the masks have asked their employees to come back to work despite the New Year holiday, in an effort to increase production.?
The virus has killed 41 people in China and infected over 1,300 others.