Shocking footage has emerged from inside a Wuhan Hospital where staff are treating the coronavirus.

A man has been arrested after filming a covert video showing the true scale of the coronavirus, as body bags pile up inside a Wuhan hospital.

The images from inside a medical facility in Wuhan, the city at the epicentre of the deadly viral outbreak, shows covered bodies lining corridors as staff and patients walk the halls with masks on. Doctors wearing hazmat suits also pronounce the death of a coronavirus victim lying lifeless on a bed.

The covert footage was shot by Chinese man Fang Bin, who was later arrested by police for taking the video.

In the horrifying video, Mr Fang goes to a van outside the hospital and counts what appears to be eight body bags piled on top of each other.

He then finds more bodies lying in the corridors waiting for people to move them outside.

Mr Fang was eventually released by police and had his computers confiscated but was allowed to keep his mobile. He then posted another video to Twitter where he confessed he was still afraid of being arrested again and that all Chinese people needed to stand together.

“I have been saying that my safety relies on everyone,” he said. “It’s useless to be fearful, it’s useless to beg them – the more you fear, the more they do things this way.”

Mr Fang’s video was posted on Twitter by Chinese journalist Jennifer Zeng who has been using her platform to share videos of the outbreak.

One of the other videos on Zeng’s account shows police arming themselves with guns.

A woman elsewhere in China was arrested in a supermarket for allegedly not wearing a mask.

The footage, not yet verified, appears to show a woman without a mask being forcibly removed from the supermarket by two policemen. Another video circulating on Twitter shows a distressed woman screaming as police try to take her away.

It was suggested the woman was infected with the coronavirus and police were attempting to take her to quarantine as she screams, “I don’t want to go.”

Wuhan is in lockdown, and it’s been reported that residents in the city are now struggling to access food.

The videos came as the official death toll from the virus rises to more than 360 in China with a suspected 17,368 cases nationwide.

The World Health Organisation expected that number to rise significantly, and a recent study suggested that as many as 75,815 people could be infected in Wuhan.

This article originally appeared on The Sun and was reproduced with permission