Heartbreaking moment woman cries for mum ‘killed by coronavirus’ as she is taken away to be cremated without goodbye
HEARTBREAKING footage shows a woman screaming as her dead mum is taken away to be cremated after being killed by the coronavirus. The young lady reportedly was not allowed to say goodbye to her mother over fears she would catch the deadly bug which has left 427 people dead. In the viral clip, the daughter […]
HEARTBREAKING footage shows a woman screaming as her dead mum is taken away to be cremated after being killed by the coronavirus.
The young lady reportedly was not allowed to say goodbye to her mother over fears she would catch the deadly bug which has left 427 people dead.
In the viral clip, the daughter can be heard crying “mum, mum, mum” as she watches a van leaving the hospital taking her parent’s body away to be incinerated.
The footage was filmed on Saturday night outside Hubei Provincial Hospital of Integrated Chinese and Western Medicine, according to local news outlet Pear.
According to the report, the sick woman had been transferred to the medical facility for treatment for coronavirus but doctors were unable to save her.
The clip was first uploaded to Chinese video app Douyin by Wuhan TV and has since went viral across the world.
An eyewitness said: “Her mother died during emergency treatment. [Doctors] couldn’t save her.
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“[Her mother] was a suspected case and the crematorium sent a vehicle directly to get [the corpse].”
They witness added that officials cremate the bodies of virus victims immediately, to stop the spread of the bug, before giving the ashes back to family members.
The outbreak is said to have originated in a food market in Wuhan with the first case being reported back in December.
Since then it has killed 427 people, mostly in China, and has infected over 20,000 around the world.
Meanwhile more than 80 Brits are currently in quarantine after flying back from Wuhan in the past week – they are set to stay there for 14 days in case they become ill.
Scientists have not yet speculated how much damage the lethal virus will cause but there is growing concerns it’s readily transmitted between humans.
Dr Anthony S Fauci, director of the American National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, warned: “It’s very, very transmissible, and it almost certainly is going to be a pandemic.
“But will it be catastrophic? I don’t know.”
It was revealed today that a suspected victim of the virus was flown back to the UK despite having symptoms.
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Anthony May-Smith had a “cough and a sore throat” but was not screened before boarding the flight from China.
Anthony, put in quarantine on the plane, was flown from France with ten other Brits to RAF Brize Norton.
He was taken by ambulance to the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford.
Last night, he was in isolation and should find out today if he is the UK’s third coronavirus victim.
