Coronavirus: Nurses step over dead bodies piled up on hospital floor as medical facilities are overrun by outbreak (disturbing video)

Disturbing footage shared online shows dead bodies piled up on the floor of a hospital in Wuhan, China.

The video, allegedly recorded at a hospital in Wuhan where the coronavirus outbreak started, shows 3 dead bodies under white sheets and workers wearing protective suits in a packed corridor.

Nurses and others are seen stepping around the bodies in a corridor packed with people apparently infected with the SARS-like virus.

The video was posted by a woman claiming to be a nurse at a Wuhan hospital and it is already making the rounds on Weibo, a social media network in China.

The woman who shared the video wrote that staff and patients were “stuck” with the bodies of three patients because no-one was available to take them away.

In another clip, a man wearing a mask over his face lay on a floor in agony as people stand around him.

At least 26 people have died and more than 800 others have been infected since the coronavirus broke out last month.

Hospitals in Wuhan – where the outbreak began late last month – are running out of masks, goggles and protective suits as the number of cases soars.

Hospitals in Wuhan are filled to capacity. Workers are racing to build a 1,000-bed hospital from scratch in less than a week to cope with the rising number of patients. At one overwhelmed hospital, tents had to be set up in a car park to treat patients because there is no room inside.

Watch the video below.