02/22/2020 - 18:00
- Clarín.com
- World
People with their hands tied by ropes, transferred by the police; fumigator cannons that run along the sidewalks; fainting in the street. A video revealed images of cities where the coronavirus began and expanded, and generated shock over the drama of the scenes that are lived on public roads and in health centers.
The films, to which Clarín had access, show how they fumigate with mobile devices, while pedestrians run around. The aerosols with which they spray windows of premises in a shopping street are managed by authorities covered with special white suits equal to those used in health centers.
The video also exposes how they take people in handcuffs, escorted by police, and shows how a man runs in a parking lot until he falls faded to the floor , which creates panic and drives away those who are nearby. Then you can see a health center where they use megaphones to give directions and movements with isolated patients.
This weekend, the alarm for the expansion of the coronavirus grew in the world. Italy announced measures after the confirmation of a second death and more than 50 cases of coronavirus contamination in the north of the country. There a dozen cities closed public places, the government dictated quarantine and also suspended 42 football matches .
Attilio Fontana, president of the Lombardy region, announced on Saturday 39 cases in that place and said in a press conference that "he is waiting for a government decision for the use of at least one of the two military structures in Baggio or Piacenza "to quarantine people at risk.
On the other hand, a plane of the Colombian Armed Forces (FAC) departed early this Saturday from Bogotá to repatriate 13 Colombians, along with three foreign members of their families, who are in Wuhan , city where almost two months ago the Coronavirus outbreak COVID-19, which has already caused more than 3,400 deaths in the Asian giant.
"The intercontinental mission, started at dawn on February 22 from the city of Bogotá, with a total of 18 crew members; 11 members of the Colombian Air Force and seven people who are part of the medical staff of the National Institute of Health and the Colombian Red Cross, "the FAC said in a statement.
The plane, Jupiter 767 model, was divided into isolated sections for the crew, doctors and passengers.
The situation is also serious in Japan (769 cases, three dead), South Korea (433 cases, two dead), Iran (28 cases, five dead). Worldwide, those infected would be more than 78,000.