Story By: Ana Lacasa, Sub-Editor:  Joana Mihajlovska, Agency: Newsflash

An ambulance worker has been forcibly evicted from his rented home in Mexico after testing positive for COVID-19.

The incident took place in the colony Las Hadas in the city of Puebla in the central Mexican state of the same name at midnight on 26th December.

According to the newspaper Infobae, Francisco Cabrera Garcia, a stretcher bearer for the Mexican Institute of Social Security, was dragged out of his home on the orders of his landlady, identified as Ani Cortes Ocana.

The landlady reportedly found out that the ambulance worker tested positive for COVID-19 when an oxygen tank was brought for him and wanted him out of the rented accommodation.

Francisco’s wife Jacquelinne Quiroz told Infobae that the landlady called on nearby neighbours to help drag her heavyset husband from the property.

She said: “They did to my husband the worst thing that can be done to another person. The landlady, Ani Cortes Ocana, dared to drag him out of the house when she found out he was infected with the virus.

“They discriminated against my husband for being sick, he was dragged out of our house with no mercy or solidarity.”

Jacquelinne added that it was the landlady and neighbours who forcibly evicted her husband, a man she described as reliable, hardworking, and a hero for the family.

Francisco reportedly had to move to his parent’s house who are both over 70 years old and in the high risk category.

It is unclear if the local authorities are investigating the matter.

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