CORONAVIRUS: Woman without mask in coronavirus zone wears giraffe costume to protect herself

#GiraffeCostume<br />Chinese woman had no choice but to buy the bizarre inflatable costume after needing to pick up lifesaving medicine for her dad despite running out of medical face masks<br />A Chinese woman turned up to hospital in a giant giraffe costume because she didn’t have any coronavirus masks left.<br /><br />The woman – known only as Mrs He – resorted to the bizarre outfit after her stricken parents asked her to run errands in Luzhou, China.<br /><br />She told reporters that she bought the costume last week after running out of working face masks.<br /><br />She also revealed that she shelled out on an alien costume for when the dinosaur one needed washing.<br />Hilarious footage shows her covered from head to toe with a small piece of plastic film for her to see out of.<br /><br />Her father was a regular patients at the hospital’s respiratory ward before the virus broke out.<br /><br />As the healthiest person in the family, she volunteered to go into town for medicine – and even managed to persuade a doctor to do a consultation over webcam.<br />Another video shows Mrs He in regular clothes with an expired medical mask and ski glasses.<br /><br />She said: “I have been wearing this mask for a while. There's no face mask available for sale.”<br />Factories now working around the clock at full capacity are still only able to produce about 20 million masks each day, China's ministry of industry revealed.<br /><br />The Wuhan coronavirus has shown no signs of slowing down in mainland China, with more than 31,100 confirmed cases.<br />