China: Video of the moment a man with coronavirus is forcibly dragged from his home to be taken to a quarantine center

A video has been making the rounds on the internet for the last few hours and shows officials in China wearing protective suits and forcibly dragging a man with coronavirus from his home to take him to a center quarantineas reported by the international media.

Specifically, the dailymail.co.uk notes that the incident took place in the city of Hangzhou, capital of the Chinese province of Zhejang in the east of the country.

Two men enter and shout at the man: “Put your mask on!”. Wrapping their arms around him as the man struggles to escape, they yell at him to “cooperate”. He tries to hold on to the couch as he doesn’t want to be taken to the government quarantine facility.

“Don’t push me,” he says, “are you crazy?” Eventually the two uniformed officials pull the man off his couch, wrapping their arms around him and forcing him to surrender.

The woman making the video pleads with the authorities “not to be so violent” and asks that they have time to talk instead of grabbing the man from his home with such ferocity.