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In this Feb. 7, 2020, photo, people wearing masks attend a vigil for Chinese doctor Li Wenliang, in Hong Kong. The outpouring of grief and rage sparked by Li's death was an unusual — and for the Chinese Communist Party, unsettling — display in China's tightly monitored civic space. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung) **FILE**

Late Chinese doctor who alerted world on COVID outbreak remembered

Residents visiting the Wuhan Central Hospital offer flowers in memory of Li Wenliang, the whistleblower doctor who sounded the alarm and was reprimanded by local police for it in the early days of Wuhan's pandemic, prior to the anniversary of his death, in central China's Hubei province, Saturday, Feb. 6, 2021. Dr. Li Wenliang died in the early hours of Feb. 7 from the virus first detected in this Chinese city. A small stream of people marked the anniversary at the hospital. The 34-year-old became a beloved figure and a potent symbol in China after it was revealed that he was one the whistleblowers who authorities had punished early for “spreading rumors” about a SARS-like virus. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

Chinese whistleblower doctor honored on death anniversary

FILE - In this Jan. 21, 2020, file photo, the Wuhan Huanan Wholesale Seafood Market, where a number of people related to the market fell ill with a virus, sits closed in Wuhan in central China's Hubei province. The Chinese city of Wuhan is looking back on a year since it was placed under a 76-day lockdown beginning Jan. 23, 2020. (AP Photo/Dake Kang, File)

Timeline: China’s COVID-19 outbreak and lockdown of Wuhan

This image from video, shows a selfie of Dr. Li Wenliang. The Chinese doctor who got in trouble with authorities in the communist country for sounding an early warning about the coronavirus outbreak died Friday, Feb. 7, 2020, after coming down with the illness. The Wuhan Central Hospital said on its social media account that Dr. Li, a 34-year-old ophthalmologist, was “unfortunately infected during the fight against the pneumonia epidemic of the new coronavirus infection.” (AP Photo)

Doctor’s death unleashes mourning, fury at Chinese officials

A man wearing face mask stands near an empty shelf of rice at a supermarket in Hong Kong, Thursday, Feb. 6, 2020. Ten more people were sickened with a new virus aboard one of two quarantined cruise ships with some 5,400 passengers and crew aboard, health officials in Japan said Thursday, as China reported 73 more deaths and announced that the first group of patients were expected to start taking a new antiviral drug. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)

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“A healthy society should not have just one type of voice,” Li had said in an interview with the Chinese business magazine Caixin last year.

Chinese whistleblower doctor honored on death anniversary →

Li is punished by police and his superiors and told he is “spreading rumors.”

Timeline: China's COVID-19 outbreak and lockdown of Wuhan →

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