'Light a candle': Death of Chinese doctor sparks mourning, anger

FILE PHOTO: A medical worker checks a driver's temperature at a checkpoint as the country is hit by an outbreak of the novel coronavirus in Anqing, Anhui province, China, February 6, 2020. REUTERS/Thomas Peter

BEIJING (Reuters) - The death from coronavirus of a Chinese doctor who had been reprimanded for issuing an early warning about the disease triggered a wave of public mourning on Friday and rare expressions of anger against the government online.

Li Wenliang, an ophthalmologist at a hospital in Wuhan, the city at the epicentre of the outbreak, became one of the most visible figures in the crisis after he revealed he was one of eight people reproached by Wuhan police last month for "spreading rumours" about the coronavirus.