Even as the death toll in China due to the deadly novel coronavirus touched 722 on Saturday, and medical workers have been asked to visit each home in Wuhan in order to check the temperature of all residents to ensure that the disease hasn't spread further, a video has emerged showing people being forcefully dragged out of their home.
The video shows officials in hazmat suit forcefully dragging people from their home. Three people are being seen removed in this fashion. While the first two are taken away without much difficulty, the officials are seen struggling to remove the third person who lies down on the floor.
However, the authenticity of the video hasn't yet been ascertained.
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Wuhan had began combing communities to ensure every confirmed or suspected patient is located and attended to as a senior official vowed to nail any official deserter "to history's pillar of shame."
A conference on epidemic control on Thursday ordered the megacity with a population of over 11 million to make all-out efforts to locate patients confirmed or suspected to be infected with the virus, close contacts of confirmed cases, as well as patients with fever.
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Once identified, these people must be treated or placed in quarantine in a timely manner, the conference said, adding that "no family or individual shall be neglected," state-run Xinhua news agency reported.
Meanwhile, the total number of confirmed cases jumped to 34,546 according to Chinese health officials.
(With PTI inputs)
