As COVID-19 sweeps through China, more than a dozen of professors at Peking University are reported to have died of “illnesses.”
Fan Hefang, an associate professor at the Institute of Foreign Languages at Peking University, is among those who passed away. According to an obituary released by the academic institution on Dec. 21, Fan died in Beijing two days before at the age of 93 after his illness failed to respond to medical treatment.
As with most recent death announcements reported by the Chinese news media, it does not specify what kind of disease it was.
The obituary said that Fan has long been engaged in Thai language teaching, textbook compilation, and other relevant research at Peking University. He served as an interpreter for the Thai delegation on certain occasions….