Wuhan doctor infected when treating patients during outbreak dies

Mei Zhongming, an oculist with the Central Hospital of Wuhan in Central China's Hubei province, died from the novel coronavirus on Tuesday, according to a notice issued by the hospital.

The 57-year-old was infected while treating patients with the virus, the hospital said, expressing deep condolences to his family.

Mei was deputy director of the hospital's Ophthalmology Department, a colleague of Li Wenliang, one of the eight people who tried to warn about the novel coronavirus when it first emerged in Wuhan and who died from the virus in early February.

According to a report by thepaper.cn, an unnamed doctor at the hospital was quoted as saying Mei was infected in mid-January and his condition began to worsen around Feb 11.

Many of Mei's patients mourned him and said that he was a warmhearted and patient doctor.