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A worker at a London underground station died of coronavirus after a man spit on her after telling her that she suffered from the disease, the Salaried Employees Transport Association (TSSA) reported on Wednesday.
Belly Mujinga, 47, suffered from respiratory problems and worked at the central Victoria station in the capital, when she was assaulted on March 22 while she was with another colleague.
As indicated to the chain BBC the victim’s husband, Lusamba Gode Katalay, the man who attacked his wife approached her to ask her, first, what she was doing at that station, before communicating that He was infected with the virus and spitting out the two women.
Within days of that incident, both employees fell ill with Covid-19 and Mujinga had to be admitted to the Barnet hospital (north of the capital) on April 2.
The woman, who had an 11-year-old daughter, ended up being connected to a ventilator and died three days after her hospitalization.
Manuel Cortes, the general secretary of his union (TSSA), stated that the members of this platform felt “shocked and devastated” for his death.
“She is one of too many workers who are First line they have lost their lives to the coronavirus, “lamented the union leader, while saying that the event raises” serious questions. “
“As a vulnerable person within the category of risk personnel, and your condition being known to your employer, there are questions about why he was not removed from frontline duties early in this pandemic“, I consider.
This episode has also been rated by the British Prime Minister’s official spokesman, Boris Johnson, of “negligible” while, for its part, the British Transport Police (BTP) opened an investigation in order to locate the aggressor.
