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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 had the disease, the Salaried Employees Transport Association (TSSA) reported.
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 the victim’s husband, Lusamba Gode Katalay, told the BBC, 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 spit on the two women.
A few days after that incident, both employees fell ill with the 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 secretary general of his union (TSSA), said that the members of this platform were “shocked and devastated” by his death.
“She is one of too many frontline workers who have lost their lives to the coronavirus,” said the union leader, saying that the event raises “serious questions.”
“As a vulnerable person within the category of risk personnel, and being his known condition to his employer, there are questions about why he was not removed from front-line duties at the beginning of this pandemic,” he said.
This episode has also been described by the British Prime Minister’s official spokesman, Boris Johnson, as “despicable” while, for its part, the British Transport Police (BTP) has opened an investigation in order to locate the aggressor.
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