Man Lying Dead on Street Paints Grim Picture of Virus-Stricken City

Man Lying Dead on Street Paints Grim Picture of Virus-Stricken City
Chinese officials in protective suits checking on an elderly man wearing a facemask who collapsed and died on a street near a hospital in Wuhan, China, on Jan. 30, 2020. HECTOR RETAMAL/AFP via Getty Images
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A photojournalist with international news agency Agence France-Presse (AFP) has shared photos of an elderly Chinese man lying dead in a Wuhan street just hours after the World Health Organization (WHO) declared a global health emergency over China’s coronavirus outbreak.

Hector Retamal on Jan 30. uploaded a series of photos showing the grim reality facing Wuhan’s 11 million residents. Wuhan, a central Chinese city, is the epicenter of the disease.

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