Disturbing social media footage has captured Chinese citizens being quarantined by officials in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak. Photo / YouTube
Disturbing social media footage has captured Chinese citizens being quarantined by officials in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak. Photo / YouTube
Shocking videos on social media have captured Chinese citizens being quarantined by officials in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak.
One video shows a woman screaming inside a metal box as Chinese authorities use the container to take her into isolation.
The woman can be heard screaming after workers inpink hazmat suits close the door on the box. Her partner is also escorted out by Chinese authorities.
Disturbing social media footage has captured Chinese citizens being quarantined by officials in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak. Photo / YouTube
According to Chinese state media outlet The Global Times, the woman had been to Wuhan two weeks earlier and had agreed to be isolated, but when officers arrived to take her away, she started shouting.
A Chinese official said locals could not find a suitable vehicle in which to transport the couple because of the Lunar New Year holidays, so they built a "simple shed" to prevent the couple from being exposed to rain.
"She agreed on the phone to be quarantined in a designated quarantine area, so we sent a pick-up truck," You, a member of the Party Working Committee told The Global Times. "At the beginning she had an emotional outburst."
Another shows a family of four being dragged out of a building by officers in hazmat suits.
The family, reportedly from Nantong in China's east, were taken towards an ambulance in the footage.
A third clip shows a furious resident of Wenzhou confronting militia guarding a quarantine roadblock, according to online accounts.
Separate footage shows a furious woman in Wenzhou being dragged away. Photo / YouTube
Wuhan officials have been ordered to put all suspected and confirmed coronavirus patients — and anyone who may have come into contact with them — into isolation camps.
China's Vice Premier urged them to take active lead in this "wartime condition", or be "nailed onto the pillar of historical shame forever".
Last week, a video emerged claiming to show a group of Chinese police officers forcing a struggling person into a van over coronavirus fears.
The footage was shared to Twitter by Steve Hanke, a professor of applied economics at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland.
He claimed the video showed police capturing a person off the street because of concerns they had the deadly coronavirus.
"Chinese police forcefully capture people from the street who potentially have the coronavirus," Hanke wrote.
"The communist govt's censorship and lies have simply made a bad situation worse."
The footage shows five people dressed in white hazmat suits and face masks appearing to try and shove a person into a van.
Another video, which is unverified, shows a family of four being taken away by officials. Photo / YouTube
The person can be heard yelling as they struggle against the group before eventually being forced into the vehicle.
The coronavirus has been likened to severe acute respiratory syndrome (Sars), which China experienced an outbreak of in 2002 and 2003.
It comes as a senior official at a crematorium in Wuhan says their intake has skyrocketed in recent weeks, suggesting more people are dying of the disease than reported.
The number of dead bodies received by the government-operated funeral home has drastically increased since January 22, peaking at 127 bodies on February 3, NTD reported.
It mirrors claims made by staff at several other Wuhan funeral homes.
An employee at Caidian Funeral Home, located in a Wuhan suburb, recently told The Epoch Times they need up to 100 body bags every day.
The video claims to show police forcing a person off the street into a van. Photo / Twitter
The individual said every funeral home in the city was facing the same situation.
