Chinese doctor investigating virus outbreak says he was infected


  • World
  • Wednesday, 22 Jan 2020

BEIJING (Reuters) - A Chinese physician who was investigating the outbreak of a mysterious new virus in central China says he has himself been infected.

Wang Guangfa, who heads the Department of Pulmonary Medicine at Beijing's Peking University First Hospital, was part of a team of experts that earlier this month visited Wuhan, where the virus emerged.

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