Beijing: Chinau2019s anti- graft watchdog on Friday launched a probe into the death of a whistleblower doctor who was reprimanded by police for spreading u2018 rumoursu2019 about the Coronavirus ( nCoV) outbreak in China that has claimed over 637 lives, amid an outpouring of global grief and anger over his death.

Chinau2019s ruling Communist Party has sent a high- level team to the epidemic- hit Wuhan city in Central Hubei province to probe Li Wenliangu2019s death on Thursday.