A union in Britain said on Tuesday that a worker at the railway station in Britain had died of Alkoid 19 after he spat out and coughed a person who claimed she was infected with the virus.
The horrific attack was widely condemned and Downing Street called it minimal.
Belle Mujinga 47 contracted the virus with a colleague a few days after assaulting the couple at Victoria Station in London on March 22 TSSA Transport Syndicate said.
They were at the entrance to the box office when a member of the crowd assaulted them, they spat on them the union said in a statement.
The man coughed at them and told them he was HIV-positive.
After the illness she added Mugenga was taken to hospital on April 2 and a ventilator installed.
Mujinga, who moved to Britain from the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 2000, died three days later leaving an 11-year-old daughter and husband.
She was a good person, a good mother and a good wife said his widow Losamba Jod Catalan.
A Downing Street spokesman said It is the right that a major factor being attacked this way while serving a mobile audience.
TSSA said it had reported the case to the rail industry security guards for investigation and that it was also receiving legal advice.
British Transport Police confirmed that they had launched an investigation into the accident. Investigations are ongoing he said in a statement, appealing to witnesses.
TSSA Secretary-General Manuel Curtis said Mugenga was one of many front-line workers who lost their lives due to the coronavirus.
He called on the families of all workers who died from COVID-19 to receive compensation from the government, which has yet to make a promise to victims of health workers.
Curtis also questioned whether the southern rail train operator had done enough to protect Mugenga and the rest of the staff from the virus.
There are serious questions about his death which were not inevitable he said.
Angie Doll managing director of Southern Railway said the company was destroyed by Mugenga's death.
We take the allegations very seriously and investigate these allegations he said noting that the safety of clients and employees remains a priority at all times.
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