(Yicai  Global) Jan. 30 -- Wang Guangfa, an expert in respiratory disease, has  been discharged from hospital today after being infected by the novel  coronavirus pneumonia in Wuhan while working as a member of an expert  group earlier this month, according to Beijing Daily.

Wang,  the director of the respiratory and critical illness department at  Beijing's Peking University First Hospital, fell ill on the evening of  Jan. 16, the day he returned from Wuhan after conducting visits at  hospital wards to see patients in critical condition.

He is the only specialist in respires the diseases to catch the disease to date.

Editor: James Boynton