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A British railway employee died of Covid-19 in April. She was infected with the saliva of a man who said he was infected.
The railway workers union announced it today.
Belly Mujinga, 47, of African descent, who worked at London’s Victoria Station, accused the virus of symptoms after she and a colleague of hers were confronted by the infected man on March 22.
“They were in the lobby next to the box office when they were attacked by a passenger who spat on them,” the Tssa union said in a statement.
“A man coughed on them and told them he had the virus.” A few days later, Ms. Mujinga’s doctor made her ill because she had pre-existing respiratory problems, Tssa added. Then the woman stopped working, but her condition continued to deteriorate, requiring hospitalization and a ventilator on April 2.
Mujinga’s belly died three days later, leaving her husband and eleven-year-old daughter, who had not been able to see her since she left the house in an ambulance.
“She was a good person, a good mother and a good wife,” said her husband, Lusamba Gode Katalay.
The Southern Railway, whose victim was employed, said it took the case “very seriously” and began an internal investigation. British Transport Police have announced the launch of an investigation and the search for witnesses; The union also asked the railway authority to investigate the events.
According to Tssa, “there are serious doubts about his death, it was not inevitable.” The union’s secretary general, Manuel Cortés, requested that the families of all workers in the sector killed by Covid-19 receive compensation from the government, as is already the case for health workers. “It is despicable to attack a key worker who serves the public in this way,” a spokesman for Prime Minister Boris Johnson reacted. “Our thoughts go to Ms. Mujinga’s family in this terrible experience.”
