SEOUL - When the people of Wuhan and elsewhere across China have wanted to share lockdown anxieties, seek advice or simply vent, many have turned to one of the country's most famous Wuhan hero: Li Wenliang, the whistleblower doctor who died Feb. 7.

HANGZHOU, China - A Chinese doctor who was silenced by police for trying to share news about the new coronavirus long before Chinese health authorities disclosed its full threat died Thursday from the disease, his friends and colleagues said.