02/23/2020 - 22:29
- Clarín.com
- World
The images look like science fiction, but they are happening in China now and they measure the seriousness of the facts: a video - disseminated by reliable sources - shows the moment when the police violently detain a motorist who wanted to avoid controlling the epidemic of coronavirus
The filming, which lasts less than 2 minutes , first shows the man who stops at the traffic control. Next, agents protected with special clothes test him for the fever, but the motorist - who has a chinstrap - advances with his car.
It is at that moment that the sirens begin to sound, they force the screams to get out of the car, they "hunt" the head with a stick carrying a net, hold it between several and, when removed, disinfect the shields, the clothes and the agents themselves. He is arrested as if he were a criminal.
Noting that the coronavirus epidemic in China is "still bleak and complex," President Xi Jinping called for more efforts this Sunday to stop the outbreak, revive the industry and prevent the disease from disrupting the planting of crops in the spring. But he also said that it is the "most serious health crisis since the 1949 revolution" that brought the legendary Mao Tse Tung to power.
The president was cautious when saying that the situation is in a "critical stage" and asked the authorities to "restrain the spread of the epidemic", which has caused the death of more than 2,400 people, the vast majority of them in China.
Meanwhile, after announcing a third death and 152 infected by the epidemic of the coronavirus, the Italian government announced Sunday measures to accentuate the isolation of the 50 thousand people from eleven Lombard municipalities that have been quarantined to stop the rapid expansion of the contagion