DISTURBING new footage shows dead bodies piling up in the hallways of a hospital in China, as the coronavirus outbreak continues to spiral out of control.
The images from inside a medical facility in Wuhan — the city at the epicentre of the deadly viral outbreak — shows covered bodies lining corridors as staffers and patients walk the halls with masks on their faces.
Doctors wearing hazmat suits can also be seen, chillingly, pronouncing the death of a coronavirus victim lying lifeless on a bed.
The covert footage was shot by Chinese man Fang Bin who was later arrested by police for taking the video.
In the horrifying video, Mr Bin goes to a van outside the hospital and counts eight body bags piled on each other before he steps inside the wards.
Once inside Mr Bin finds more bodies lying in the corridors waiting for people to move them outside.
Mr Bin was eventually released by police and had his computers confiscated, but was allowed to keep his mobile.
He then posted another video to Twitter where he confessed he was still afraid he may get arrested again and that all Chinese people needed to stand together.
“I have been saying that my safety relies on everyone,” he exclaimed.
“It’s useless to be fearful, it’s useless to beg them — the more you fear, the more they do things this way.”
Mr Bin’s journey was posted on Twitter by Chinese journalists Jennifer Zeng who has been using her platform to share videos of the outbreak.
One of the other videos on Ms Zeng’s account showed police arming themselves with guns.
Ms Zeng questioned the logic of police arming themselves as they would not be able to shoot or control the virus.
However, a later video that appeared on her page suggests the arming was to deal with citizens in the area.
A woman somewhere in China was arrested in a supermarket for allegedly not wearing a mask.
The footage has not been verified, but it appears to show a woman without a mask being forcibly removed from the supermarket by two policemen.
It is not the first video to show how tough police are being on people suspected of having the virus.
Another video circulating on Twitter shows a distressed woman screaming as police try to take her away.
It is believed that the woman is infected with the coronavirus and police were attempting to take her to quarantine as she screams: “I don’t want to go”.
More and more videos are emerging on social media from inside the virus zone and are being shared widely across various platforms.
One video shows people unloading a helicopter with what is believed to be supplied for the city.
Wuhan is currently in lockdown and it has been reported that residents in the city are struggling to access food.
The videos come as the official death toll from the virus rises to over 300 in China with a suspected 14,300 cases nationwide.
The World Health Organisation expected that number to rise significantly and a recent study suggested that as many as 75,815 people could be infected in Wuhan.
