HARROWING footage has emerged showing three people, allegedly infected with the deadly coronavirus being dragged from their home by hazmat-clad officials as they scream and yell.
The death toll has now climbed past 700 as a UK-based scientist warns the virus is TEN TIMES worse than feared.
The shocking video was shared to Radio Free Asia’s Twitter feed.
The tweet says the three are residents of Kunshan, Jiangsu who refused to comply with officials who were putting them into quarantine.
The tweet reads: “A group of personnel wearing protective clothing of “Kunshan City Governance” went to a household to persuade the residents to prepare for packing to be isolated, but the head of household refused to cooperate.
“The staff then entered the house and took the residents one by one and sent them to the ambulance”.
The shocking scenes see officials wearing blue protective clothing, face masks and protective head coverings removing members of the household by force.
Two men frogmarch a man in a winter coat out as he literally digs his heels into the ground, desperate not to be taken.
A woman is then hauled out under the armpits by a hazmat-clad man much bigger than her.
The final member of the household puts up an epic fight.
The clip shows the shirtless man writhing on the floor and yelling as he’s bundled out of the apartment by four of the men.
He is then hauled into an ambulance, but crawls out and makes a break for it underneath the van as further struggle ensues.
It takes three of the men to remove him and stuff him back into the ambulance.
The death toll has now risen to 724 with more than 34,800 cases globally after the virus appeared in the Chinese city of Wuhan.
Professor John Edmunds, from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, said modelling showed there were “ten times more cases than have been reported – or even more.
“And none of the tests is going to be 100 per cent sensitive so it is not unusual to only capture maybe 10 per cent of the cases”.
The professor added: “[Coronavirus] is a mild disease that might be missed if somebody doesn’t seek healthcare,” he said.
“And none of the tests is going to be 100 per cent sensitive so it is not unusual to only capture maybe 10 per cent of the cases.”
“When there are very large numbers of cases it becomes very hard to confirm them all just because of manpower. Time will tell.”
Coronavirus outbreaks have reportedly slowed down for two consecutive days in China but officials have declared the worse is not yet over.
