A photo of an elderly man, wearing a face mask and carrying a plastic bag, lying dead in a Wuhan street as cyclists peddle past has shown what conditions in the locked-down city are really like.
A grey-haired man wearing a face mask lies dead on the pavement at ground zero of China'sOn what would typically be a crowded street in Wuhan, an industrial city of 11 million under quarantine, there are only a few passersby and they dare not go near him.
Agence France-Presse journalists saw the body on Friday, not long before an emergency vehicle arrived carrying police and medical staff in full-body protective suits.The man lay straight on his back in front of a closed furniture store.The ambulance left, and police stacked supermarket cardboard boxes to hide the scene.AFP contacted police and local health officials afterwards but could not get details on his case. But the reaction of the police and medical staff in hazmat suits, as well as some of the bystanders, highlighted the fear pervading the city.A woman standing near the man, wearing pink pyjamas and a Mao cap, said she believed he had died from the virus.Wuhan is the epicentre of the outbreak of the new coronavirus, which is believed to have jumped from wild animals at a city market into humans. The virus, which emerged late last year, has claimed at least 213 lives and infected almost 10,000 people in China, with at least 159 deaths in Wuhan alone.
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