<span style="color: #222222;">In China, six health workers have died and more than 1,700 have been infected from the novel coronavirus. The health officials underscored the risks doctors and nurses have taken amid shortages of masks and protective suits.<br />''<br />''The figure comes a week after public anger erupted over the death of a whistleblowing doctor who had been reprimanded and silenced by police after raising the alarm about the virus in December. </span><br />