Meanwhile, President Trump spoke with China's leader Xi Jinping to discuss the coronavirus epidemic, which has rapidly gone global since it began in China in December.ĭr.
Li, who is being hailed for his efforts to alert the medical profession to the new virus, died Friday after becoming infected.Ĭhina says it has launched an investigation into 'issues' related to the death on Friday of a doctor whose early efforts to alert his colleagues to the dangers of a new coronavirus were quashed by authorities. A photo of the late ophthalmologist Li Wenliang at a hospital in Wuhan, China, on Friday.