Police in hazmat suits yesterday swarmed around the body of a man who was found dead on the pavement at ground zero of China's virus epidemic. The grey-haired man collapsed and died while wearing a face mask on a street in Wuhan, a city of 11million people which is under quarantine amid the coronavirus crisis. The virus, which emerged late last year, has infected thousands in China with at least 159 deaths in Wuhan alone. Yesterday police and medical staff in hazmat suits attended to the man's body outside a furniture store in the city. A woman standing near the man, wearing pink pyjamas and a Mao cap, said she believed he had died from an illness caused by the virus.

Source: Daily Mail January 31, 2020 07:48 UTC