But now, with the accusations of cover ups, crackdown and even force quarantines beginning to mount is China trying to shut down grown a virus?

Whistleblowers the start of criticism towards the Chinese authorities with the death of whistle blowing Dr Lee when Yang, he's one of now too high profile doctors to die as a result of the outbreak.

Dr Lee was working at Wuhan Central Hospital when he saw multiple instances of this Corona virus, now known officially as Co Vered, 19.

Impatient, he tried to warn fellow medics over a messaging app at the end of December, telling them toe wear protective clothing because communication is so monitored in China.

The authorities soon caught up with Dr Lee.

Police then made him sign a letter which accused him of making false comments that had severely disrupted the social order.

In an interview with The New York Times, Dr Lee said he felt he was being wrong at the time, but he had to accept it and if there was more openness and transparency, it would have been a lot better.

Just one week after Dr Lee blew the whistle.

The first death on the virus was confirmed lesson.

Six weeks later, Dr Lee himself was dead from the very virus he tried to warn against.

Social media is heavily censored in China, yet many went online to hell.

The doctor as a martyr and hero.

There's even footage of citizens blowing whistles in unison.

And it wasn't just ordinary people reacting.

Government officials, celebrities and business leaders joined in at the time.

Remember, millions of Chinese people were holed up inside, under lock.

Down on.

They had hours to pour over messages of outrage.

After Dr Lee's death, the phrase we want freedom of speech began to trend on we both the Twitter like website in China before it was censored.

This image, showing Dr Lee's mask with barbed wire, was also shared widely unusually, the Communist Party about to this pressure, they've said they now sent an inspection group to thoroughly investigate issues relating to Dr Lee's death, and other Chinese authorities paid their respects publicly.

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This kind of fast response to public to send in China is rare.

The doctor who first blew the whistle about the size virus in 2003 has been raised from official records of the time system.

Journalists have also been disappearing, increasing the tension between freedom of speech on the Internet and China's one party state.

You know this is businessman Frank Ben, who became well known for posting videos online of Wuhan City at the center of the Corona virus outbreak.

His footage appears to show relatives morning sick and dead loved ones in a Rouhani hospital.

He was campaigning for people to speak out about the realities of the virus, accusing the Chinese government of a cover up.

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Findings account went quiet on the seventh of February.

His last video was a piece of paper reading.

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He's one of the least four people reportedly detained by Chinese authorities this month.

Chen Kuo sha, a lawyer who was also documenting life in Wuhan, has vanished.

Friends and family said they believed he'd been forcibly quarantined and shoot you.

Young, who's a lawyer and activist, is also thought to have been detained.

Jang Wrong, a prominent academic, became the first high profile figure to call out President G for his handling of the crisis.

He wrote an essay called Viral Alarm When fury overcomes fear.

In it, he said, the spread of the virus was down to the lots and core of Chinese governance.

This kind of public criticism of President G, not the done thing in China.

Reportedly the professor has since been placed under house arrest for days.

His friends say he's been barred from social media and is now cut off from the Internet.

He's not the only academic to take a stand.

10 Wuhan professors signed an open letter to the government.

They demanded the right to freedom of speech and asked President Ji's party to apologize on compensate whistle blowers.

The Corona virus outbreak is causing Chinese citizens to challenge their government like never before.

But China's response to the virus has been internationally praised for the most part, not like in 2000 free when the sauce outbreak was hugely damaging, China were heavily criticized for withholding information about the epidemic for too long.

Of course, a lots changed since then.

We can now diagnose viruses quicker.

On this time, transparency has been much better.

The World Health Organization says China told them about this Corona virus on the 31st of December 2019.

That's just one day after Dr Lee sent those warning messages to medics.

Telling the World Health Organization means scientists can work together quickly to try and stop an epidemic in its tracks.

They plays China's more open approach.

In countless press conferences, China has taken one of the most ancient strategies for infectious disease control and rolled out probably the most ambitious that I would say agile and aggressive disease containment effort in history.

Even some of the country's most famous critics praise their efforts.

I spoke with President Xi of China, and he's working very hard on this kid's a tremendous problem, but they're very capable and they'll they'll get to it.

They're practical Response drew admiration.

China built to hospitals at lightning speed in Wuhan, geared to deal with the virus.

One was built in 10 days, another in 12.

Together they both 2600 beds.

But official data shows that the hospitals are running at just half their capacity.

The number of beds are far outstripping the number of patients being treated.

And this is where the international community's concerns life.

What is propaganda?

What is truth?

While scientists trying to find a cure for covert 19 the political debate rages on the virus has now killed more than 2000 people globally, with new infections daily.

The international community has praised China's swift response to the crisis, but they're also aware of the massive economic pain the country is in, with millions of people off work on businesses.

No operating normally.

With that economic pressure comes an urgent need to potentially downplay the threat of the virus.

While China claims the number of new infections of falling, the World Health Organization says it's still too early to determine a downward trend with a new disease.