Source: https://www.rfa.org/cantonese/news/s...616.htmlSenior environmentalist Xu Dapeng and his wife died of pneumonia
2020-01-22
Mr. Xu Dapeng, a senior environmental activist in Wuhan, died of pneumonia within 10 days. Although their symptoms are very similar to those of the new type of coronavirus pneumonia, the hospital did not test them for "Wuhan pneumonia" and their death was not listed as " Many of the close friends and relatives who died during the "Wuhan pneumonia" epidemic did not receive any isolation measures. (Reporting by Huang Shanshan / Wen Haixin)
Friends of Nature, a well-known environmental NGO, announced on Wednesday (22) that the original convener of the group's Wuhan group, Xu Dapeng, a senior environmental educator in China, died of a lung infection at the Hankou Hospital in Wuhan that day.
Prior to this, on January 12, Xu Dapeng's wife died of a lung infection at Wuhan No. 6 Hospital. Xu Dapeng was in the hospital for his wife's last days.
Mr. Zeng of the Wuhan Group of Friends of Nature confirmed the news to this reporter and revealed that Xu Dapeng's body had been cremated rapidly today, but they could not obtain more details.
Mr. Zeng said 0122-CN-spread-1: Yes, yes, he also died. I also learned the news last night. Look at the official Wei of the Friends of Nature and the information I sent in the circle of friends. I have not got more detailed information about the specific situation.
The mainland's "Beijing News" quoted Xu Dapeng's daughter as saying that Mrs. Xu had no cough symptoms but fever, and Xu Dapeng was very ill. She could go on her own at the hospital on the 20th, but died in the early morning of the 22nd. More importantly, although both Xu Dapeng and the couple showed severe symptoms of pneumonia, before their death, neither of them had undergone nucleic acid testing to identify whether it was pneumonia caused by a new coronavirus infection. In other words, Xu Dapeng and his wife have not been officially counted as deadly cases of the new coronavirus.
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