The Chinese authorities have allegedly started forcefully taking away people suspected of having coronavirus from their homes.
The victims are being up in Wuhan, the epicentre of the outbreak of the virus, and taken to camps, the London Mail reported yesterday.
Video recordings show officials in protective suits holding onto two people by their arms before a third more resistive man is picked up from the floor and carried away in one shocking clip shared online.
The footage, filmed in Wuhan, comes after China’s Vice Premier Sun Chunlan called on a ‘people’s war’ against the fast-spreading epidemic.
Penultimate week the country’s central government ordered the city to round up all suspected patients as well as their close contacts in mass quarantine camps.
At the last count yesterday, more than 700 lives had been claimed by the virus, with 86 people dying on Friday alone.
More than 34,500 are said to have been infected across the world.
In the video one person wearing a face mask is seen being quickly pulled along by officials and is soon followed by a woman in a winter jacket who is held underneath the arms by someone in a protective suit.
However, the officials have more trouble in removing a third person who is laying in a doorway and refusing to be picked up.
Two people try to lift him, but after having no luck they are joined by a man in a blue apron and then two other officials.
Despite the manpower, the group still struggle to lift the man who kicks out at them and struggles from the floor. Eventually three of the men manage to pick him up and carry the suspected patient down the stairs.
While in another video, said to have also been filmed in China, a woman is seen being detained by several police officers and struggling against them.
The clip was shared on Twitter claiming to show the woman being ‘arrested and put in isolation for not wearing a mask against coronavirus.’
It comes after it was revealed that China’s central government ordered Wuhan to round up all suspected patients and anyone they are thought to have been in close contact with in mass quarantine camps.
