Dozens of Chinese experts and scholars have died in the recent outbreak of COVID-19. On Dec. 22 alone, three obituaries were released by Peking University, a university renowned for its “important and unique contribution” to the founding of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
In fact, it was through the unusually frequent obituaries released by Peking University and Tsinghua University that many Chinese people came to realize the severity of the current outbreak.