a shrine to dr. Li wen Liang outside the
hospital where he died a martyr to
telling the truth he was one of eight
medical officials who reported the
outbreak at the start and was
reprimanded by the Wuhan Police for
spreading rumors in Hong Kong they
understand the relationship between
secrecy and the spread of the novel
coronavirus which has entered the
territory from mainland China he's the
the first girl people who have
discovered his disease and he's willing
to speak up the truth and I'm not really
he the truth was not spread around early
so so that's why the things happen like
this the way they do things is secretive
and this is the result this is the
difference between a society with
democracy and one without as news of his
death spread millions of Chinese posted
their anger and grief on social media
with memes about how he'd been gagged
the people's hero a whistleblower others
saying Chinese people wake up with the
hashtag we demand freedom of speech but
as soon as the posts go up they're
pulled down this content no longer
exists it says his mother spoke to
Chinese media at a press conference in
Beijing this morning health officials
expressed condolences leave unknown you
shall façon de syndrome trying to co-opt
dr. Lee's hero status and reduce popular
anger they'd much rather talk about how
they've nearly finished building a
second thousand bed hospital in Wuhan at
record speed that's the advantage of an
authoritarian regime you can get things
done but the image of an efficient
modern healthcare system is it odds with
what Wuhan citizens have filmed that
I'll tell you me patients are packed
like sardines in a new quarantine center
in Wuhan medicines are in short supply
and they say basic hygiene isn't
observed the potential for further rapid
spread is obvious in Chinese cities
people are blowing whistles in honor of
the whistle blower doctor Li wen Liang
and isolated in their apartments in
Wuhan shouting in his support
they've been posting the lyrics from the
lamia's ER habla anthem do you hear the
people sing it's not clear that Chinese
officials do well Thailand now has 25
confirmed cases of the corona virus this
capital Bangkok is now considered the
most at-risk city in the world outside
of China for spread of the infection
our Bangkok correspondent Johnson Miller
has spoken to doctors and officials
tasked with tackling the virus who admit
they may only be able to delay its
spread rather than contain it the Land
of Smiles has gone incognito
Bangkok City of Angels now the city of
masks
at erawan shrine they pray for good
fortune in uncertain times with so many
unknowns there is just holy prayers
coronavirus the unwelcome visitor has
caused quiet panic quality masks have
long since sold out as has hand
sanitizer behind the masks sometimes you
sense fear in those eyes Thailand's
Public Health Minister a Luton cheer we
reckon was handing out flimsy surgical
masks this morning here to go and
question tourists for refusing to wear
them unbelievable he said we should kick
them out of the country by now we armed
up I paid him a visit that is public
health ministry sorry cap good morning
minister very good thank you sir um do
you do you feel everything's under
control
well we we have to take precaution we we
don't feel comfortable we we feel
confident with our system I'm confident
with our doctors and confident with you
know our people generally if it can be
contained before it becomes an outbreak
we have done our best and so far so good
he said it at the heart of this ministry
the war room as it's called a 24/7
coronavirus command centre Thailand site
of the first human to human transmission
outside China Bangkok ranked the city
most at-risk in the world due to its
profusion of air links with China
Chinese tourists ten million a year
lifeblood of the industry here their
numbers have now plunged