Central guiding team on virus control mourns loss of Wuhan Wuchang Hospital head

China's central guiding team on coronavirus epidemic control mourned the loss of Liu Zhiming, a veteran doctor who succumbed to the novel coronavirus infection early on Tuesday.

At the request of Chinese Vice Premier Sun Chunlan, who also leads a central government group to guide the epidemic control work in Hubei Province, deputy head of the National Health Commission Yu Xuejun headed to Wuhan in central China's Hubei Province on Tuesday afternoon to pay tribute to doctor Liu and send condolences to his family.

Liu, head of Wuhan Wuchang Hospital, passed away at 10:30 a.m. on Tuesday due to novel coronavirus pneumonia.