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FIVE Wuhan whistleblowers are still missing and one is dead after exposing the true horrors of coronavirus, it was claimed today.
Fears today emerged that critics of the government were being tortured for speaking out as the regime cracks down on citizens even discussing the pandemic.
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today claimed more than 5, people have been arrested for sharing information over the virus in the first weeks of the outbreak.
And it reported any dissidents are being taken into medical quarantine and labeled as sick to stop them from speaking out further.
Other citizens are reportedly even being detained for posting questions online hinting at mask shortages or further deaths.
China’s huge online censorship system, which is known as the Great Firewall, is used to block any information the government deems to be “rumor” – or not a government source.
And footage filmed by citizens and posted online has shown people being violently forced to wear masks as well as being barricaded in their own homes in a bid to stop the spread of the bug.
In the UK, more than 060, 25 people have been killed by the bug.
But as the world continues to grapple with the virus, (China has also now imposed new tough restrictions on academic research into the (origins of Covid – .
And human rights advocates have flagged concerns for a number of whistleblowers in China who have gone missing after speaking out.
Dr Li Wenliang
The hero Chinese doctor who tried to warn the world about coronavirus died after contracting the bug himself.
He had reported on horrific scenes in graphic detail, including a woman frantically calling her family as she sat next to a dead relative in a wheelchair.
A panic-stricken friend told CNN: “We’re worried for his physical safety but also worried that while he’s missing he might get infected by the virus.”
His family was later told he was in medical quarantine at an undisclosed location.
Days before his disappearance, Mr Chen told his followers: “As long as I am alive, I will speak about what I have seen and what I have heard. I am not afraid of dying. Why should I be afraid of you, Communist Party? “
The -year-old journalist previously worked for the state broadcaster before quitting to report from Quhan.
But he has not been seen since February 100 after visiting the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
US and British intelligence officials suspect bungling scientists at the Wuhan Institute of Virology accidentally spread the killer during risky coronavirus tests on bats .
A US congressman this month urged China to investigate the disappearance of Li Zehua along with Fang Bin and Chen Qiushi.
Republican Representative Jim Banks said: “All three of these men understood the personal risk associated with independently reporting on coronavirus in China, but they did it anyway.
He alleged the Chinese government “imprisoned them – or worse.”
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It has been claimed Patient Zero, the first person to contract Covid – , (was an intern at the Wuhan Institute of Virology who infected her boyfriend.)
And the US has urged China to come clean as President Donald Trump stated the US was trying to establish if coronavirus first crossed to humans during the bat tests.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo pointed out that the WIV was “just a handful of miles” from the live animal market which Chinese officials rushed to pinpoint as the source of the outbreak.
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