- A 29-year-old Chinese doctor named Peng Yinhua planned to marry his fiancée during the Lunar New Year holiday.
- Peng postponed the wedding to help treat people with the coronavirus in the country, but he died from the virus on Thursday, according to China's official Xinhua news agency.
- More than 1,700 Chinese healthcare workers have gotten the coronavirus, and at least eight have died.
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A young Chinese doctor who postponed his wedding to help battle the coronavirus died from the disease on Thursday, China's official Xinhua news agency said.
Peng Yinhua, 29, was treating patients at the center of the coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan's Jiangxia district. Peng was admitted to the hospital after contracting the virus on January 25.
A statement from the hospital obtained by The Guardian said Peng was sent to Jinyintan Hospital in Wuhan for emergency treatment when his condition dramatically worsened. He died on Thursday night.
Peng planned to marry his partner, who has not been named in reports, during the Lunar New Year holiday, but they agreed to delay the ceremony so that Peng could help treat people with the coronavirus, Chinese state media said. Peng never even had the chance to send his wedding invitations, which remain in his office drawer, Xinhua said, according to Agence France-Presse.
Chinese citizens have mourned his death on the social-media platform Weibo, lauding the doctor as a hero.
"We will never forget these heroes," one Weibo user wrote in a post. "They selflessly gave it all, I think we will always remember them."
—China Daily (@ChinaDaily) February 21, 2020
