Horrifying moment man claiming to have coronavirus deliberately coughs, sneezes and spits at news reporter during live TV spot at Argentina bus station
- Marco Bustamante of Cronica TV was doing a live television spot when a Chilean tourist coughed, sneezed and spit at him and a camera man Monday afternoon
- The Chilean man was awaiting for a bus at a station in the Buenos Aires district of Retiro when he attacked the news crew and told them he had coronavirus
- Bustamante sought the police, who intervened and questioned the man
- It is unknown if he was indeed carrying the deadly virus
- Argentina has confirmed 65 cases and two people have died
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A reporter was deliberately coughed, sneezed and spit on by a man who claimed to be carrying with the coronavirus during a live television shoot outside a bus station in a Buenos Aires neighborhood.
Cronica TV’s Marco Bustamante had just concluded an interview with a Chilean tourist at a transportation hub in the Retiro district when another man walked up to him and his cameraman.
The man, also a native of Chile, insulted Bustamante and told him to ‘stop lying.’
He subsequently blurted that he was infected with ‘coronavirus’ and proceeded to cough, sneeze and spit towards a shocked Bustamante and his Cronica TV crew member before he walked away.
A Chilean tourist visiting Argentina spit, sneezed and coughed on a Cronica TV reporter while filming a live television newscast segment from a bus station in Buenos Aires. The man, whose name was not released by authorities, claimed to be infected with coronavirus
Marcos Bustamante was forced to seek police assistance at a bus station in the Buenos Aires district of Retiro moments after a male tourist from Chile coughed and sneezed on him and a television camera man, and then told them he was infected with coronavirus
Bustamante could be heard in the background shouting for the police at the deserted bus station.
Cops patrolling the area later arrived and set up a section where they quarantined the man in a corner. It is unknown if he indeed was infected with the deadly virus.
The Argentine government has confirmed 65 cases and two people have died.
The virus has produced 7,476 deaths globally and affected 187,947 people.
The Argentine government has confirmed 65 coronavirus cases. At least two people have died
It is unknown of the Chilean was confirmed to be carrying the deadly coronavirus that has infected 65 people in Argentina and left two men dead
Guillermo Abel Gómez, 65, died March 7 after arriving in Argentina on February 25 after traveling to Paris.
César Cotichelli, 61, was declared dead last Friday. The college professor returned to South American nation February 24 after vacationing in Egypt, Turkey and Germany
Argentina took further measures Monday in an attempt at controlling the pandemic by cancelling domestic flights as well as long distance train and bus service beginning Friday. Service is expected to resume March 25.