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Health / Coronavirus
Early stages of the pandemic
Video ABC News In-depth: Coronavirus: How the deadly epidemic sparked a global emergency | Four Corners
Peter Burgess
10,907,344 views•Feb 24, 2020
ABC News In-depth 226K subscribers
It’s likened to a scene from an apocalypse. Wuhan — a city more populous than London or New York — placed in ‘lockdown’ following the outbreak of the new and deadly coronavirus.
In China, more than two thousand people have died, with tens of thousands more infected, and authorities are resorting to extreme measures to try to halt the contagion. In interviews filmed on smartphones, Chinese activists and Australians trapped in the lockdown explain what they are going through.
Four Corners charts how the outbreak occurred and investigates whether a cover-up by Chinese authorities allowed the virus to spread.
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