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A woman in Wuhan has climbed eight storeys down the outside of a high-rise building after her son allegedly locked her up in her room to prｅvent her from running away and getting infｅcted with the coronavirus.

The 62-year-old, said to suffer from schizophrenia, was carrying a pot of instant noodles in a bag when she made her way down with her bare hands.

She reached the ground safely and was not hurt, according to local officials.

Footage circulating online shows a woman in a green top descending along an exterior wall of a tower block with a plastic bag in hand. The 62-year-old Wuhan resident reached the ground safely and was not hurt after climbing eight storeys without any safety harness

Workers at a coronavirus checkpoint stopped the woman after she escaped from her home. The inspectors saw her holding a plastic bag, which contained a pot of instant noodles (right)

The incident took place at a residential complex in Wuhan’s Huangpi District yesterday afternoon, reported Chutian Urban Daily.

Footage circulating on social media shows a woman in a green top descending along an exterior wall of a tower block with a plastic bag in hand.

She is seen holding onto the railings outside the balconies when she slowly moved down the façade.

Online accounts suggested that the woman had escaped from her home to buy meat.

But local officials denied the allegations.

The novel coronavirus has k¡lled at least 2,705 people and ¡nfected more than 80,320 globally

Officials told reporters that the woman had schizophrenia, and had refused to take medicine for her ¡llness.

They said she sneaked out of her home on February 16 and remained missing for eight days.

When she returned yesterday, her son decided to lock her up in her room to stop her from running away, only to be informed that her mother had broken out of their flat again when he was not home, it is claimed.

One local official told Red Star News: ‘[She] was ¡ntercepted by workers at a checkpoint in our village. [We] contacted her son and then took her to a hospital to have a check-up. She was found to be fine and we escorted her home along with her son. ‘

It is said checkpoint inspectors saw the woman holding a plastic bag, which contained a pot of instant noodles.

The spokesperson added: ‘We have told her son to look after her well.’

The Chinese city of Wuhan, where the new coronavirus originated, has been on lockdown for more than a month to prevent the spread of the deadly disease. The picture shows a man wearing a face mask rides a bike filled with food supplies in Wuhan on February 24

WHO says the epidemic has peaked in China, but Wuhan is still on lockdown. The government has ordered residents to wear face masks and keep at least 1.5 metres from each other if they must go out. The picture show a man wearing a mask rides a bicycle in Wuhan on February 24

Three women and a police officer wear masks in Tehran on Sunday to guard against the coronavirus in Iran, which now has the worst outbreak in the Middle East

Women wearing protective masks get off a bus in Tehran yesterday, amid claims that the Iranian regime is covering up the true scale of the crisis

Originating in the Chinese city of Wuhan in Hubei Province, the new coronavirus – known as COVID-19 – has k¡lled at least 2,663 and ¡nfected more than 77,660 people inside China.

Hubei, situated in central China, accounts for more than 80 per cent of the confirmed cases and 95 per cent of the dｅaths globally.

Wuhan, the provincial capital with 11 million residents, went into lockdown on January 23 in the wake of the outbreak. The majority part of Hubei then followed suit.

Overnight, the Hubei health officials reported 499 new cases out of a nationwide total of 508 and 68 of the 71 new deaths across China.

Globally, the coronavirus epidemic has k¡lled at least 2,705 people, ¡nfected more than 80,320 and spread to at least two dozen countries.