Story By: John Feng, Sub-Editor:  Joseph Golder, Agency: Asia Wire Report

AsiaWire

This video seen 5 million times in less than 24 hours shows a coronavirus checkpoint worker breaking into a kung fu routine and scaring off a man who is seen trying to enter his village.

The unnamed volunteer can be seen guarding the main road leading in and out of his village in the city of Jinan, capital of Shandong Province in East China.

Footage shared by local resident Mr Liu, 31, shows the volunteer and another colleague standing behind a red ribbon stretched across the entire width of the road, blocking it from outsiders.

The village is reportedly under quarantine and imposing self-isolation measures amid the COVID-19 outbreak, with no one allowed to enter or leave the area.

When the male traveller arrives on his small electric bike and tries to enter the village via the checkpoint, the staff member has no choice but to pull out all the stops.

He screams and does a backflip before performing a spinning sweeping kick, ending in a threatening martial arts pose which appears to immediately scare off the would-be intruder.

The villager does a second kung fu flip as the terrified traveller gets back on his e-bike and rides off in a hurry.

He successfully deters the e-bike rider as the video ends.

The novel coronavirus, which began in Wuhan in China’s central province of Hubei, has so far killed 2,663 people in mainland China.

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