PATIENTS at one of Wuhan’s coronavirus hospitals were fed turtle meat for dinner after contracting the deadly disease spread from wild animals, it has emerged.
A video released by Chinese media, several infected patients can be seen lying in bed eating their dinner, as someone explains: “Today’s meal includes softshell turtle meat.”
Experts say the deadly coronavirus, which has killed over 600 people, started at a food market in Wuhan where snakes, rats, beavers, wolf cubs and even koalas are regularly slaughtered to order.
But according to traditional Chinese medicine, softshell turtle meat is highly nutricious and can help sick people recover quickly.
The turtles can come from the wild or from breeding farms and are usually simmered in water to create a broth.
In the clip taken from Wuhan’s hospital, meat can be seen paired with vegatables and rice.
Independent Chinese video news outlet, Ren Jian Zhi Bei, published a video which was taken from within a makeshift coronavirus hospital.
One woman can be heard saying: “Brothers and sisters, look, you are fighting on the front line, and we are fighting on the front line with you.”
Another patient then shows provisions given to patients, including toilet roll, slippers and toothpaste.
A third patient adds: “Today’s meal includes softshell turtle meat.”
A new study shows the possible risk of hospital-related transmissions.
The study, published in the medical journal JAMA on Friday, analysed 138 patients hospitalised with coronavirus in Wuhan, China.
The data proves that hospital-related transmissions of the virus were suspected in about 41 percent of the patients.
40 health care workers in the study and 17 patients who were already hospitalised for other reasons were presumed to have been infected with coronavirus in the hospital.
Around 150 Brits will be flown back from Wuhan this Sunday and will be quarantined at a facility in Milton Keynes.
The UK government could ban all travellers who have recently visited China from entering Britain in the next week as the coronavirus outbreak continues to rise.
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