Shocking social media videos have captured the horror, fear and fury of some Chinese citizens when they were being quarantined in the wake of the novel coronavirus outbreak.
One trending clip shows an emotional woman screaming in a metal box when officers used the container to take her into isolation.
While another section of footage apparently captures a family of four being dragged out of a building by officers in hazmat suits.
In one of the videos widely circulating on Twitter and YouTube, a woman and a man can be seen being escorted into quarantine by officers donning pink hazmat suits in eastern China
In one of the videos widely circulating on Twitter and YouTube, a woman and a man can be seen being escorted into quarantine by officers donning pink hazmat suits in eastern China
In one of the videos widely circulating on Twitter and YouTube, a woman and a man can be seen being escorted into a metal box at the back of a pickup truck.
The woman can be heard screaming after workers donning pink hazmat suits closed the door of the cube.
A third clip, which emerged over the weekend and is unverified, shows a furious resident of Wenzhou confronting militia guarding a quarantine roadblock, according to online accounts
It is suggested that they had refused to be isolated.
The family, said to be from Nantong in eastern China, were taken towards an ambulance in the footage which first appeared earlier this month.
Someone who is infected with the coronavirus can spread it with just a simple cough or a sneeze, scientists say.
At least 1,116 people with the virus are now confirmed to have died and more than 45,200 have been infected in at least 28 countries and regions. But experts predict the true number of people with the disease could be 100,000, or even as high as 350,000 in Wuhan alone, as they warn it may kill as many as two in 100 cases.