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A female worker at a London underground station died of coronavirus after a man spit on him after telling him that he had the disease, reported the Association of Transport of Salaried Employees (TSSA).
Belly Mujinga, 47, black, suffered respiratory problems and worked in the central station of Victoria, in the capital, when she was attacked on March 22 while she was with another colleague.
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As indicated to the chain BBC the victim’s husband, Lusamba Gode Katalay, the man who attacked his wife he approached her to ask her, first, what she was doing at that station, before communicating that he was infected with the virus and spitting on the two women.
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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, had to be connected to a ventilator and died three days after her hospitalization.
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Police opened an investigation to find the man who assaulted her.
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,” the union leader lamented, while saying that the event raises “serious questions”.
“As a vulnerable person within the category of risk personnel, and being your condition 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 described by the British Prime Minister’s official spokesman, Boris Johnson, as “negligible” while, for his part, the British Transport Police (BTP) has opened an investigation to locate the assailant.
EFE
