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A Chinese man was reportedly arrested after attempting to expose the true scale of the coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan.

Footage circulating online, which has not been verified, appears to show stacks of body bags piled up inside a bus outside the quarantined city’s Number Three hospital.

The supposed whistleblower, named Fang Bin, claims to have seen even more inside the hospital, including one sprawled on a ward between sick patients, MailOnline reports.

His 75-second video appears to show medics clad in hazmat suits attempting to treat patients as others wait moaning in pain.


The footage purportedly shows piles of body bags on board a bus outside Wuhan’s Number Three hospital

The person recorded claimed even more were still inside

The maker of the supposedly covert footage claimed to have seen a dead patient sprawled between a number of sick ones

On his way back out the man approaches someone wearing protective clothing after another body is seemingly loaded onto the bus.



He can be heard asking: ‘So many people just died? When did this happen? Yesterday? There are so many bodies.’

The footage surfaced after being shared by Chinese journalist Jennifer Zeng on Twitter.

Another clip was later posted by an account named hujongxiong purportedly showing Mr Bin being taken away by officers who accompanied him back to his flat to take his temperature amid ‘concern’ over his trip to the hospital.

Similarly unconfirmed reports suggest he has now been freed. The Mail reports that the clip is thought to have been made last Saturday.

Despite difficulties establishing its veracity, it nonetheless adds pressure on the Chinese government to be more open about the outbreak following similar videos which have emerged claiming as many as 90,000 have been infected, and allegedly showing people collapsing in the street.

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