The documentary spans the period from January 23 to April 8 this year when Wuhan, a city of 11 million people in Hubei province, was placed under a lockdown following the coronavirus outbreak. I was angry.”The filmmaker’s teammates filmed in four hospitals and shared the raw footage online with Hao, who then took it forward. Hao said his team members “risked their own lives to film in the hospitals, especially when the danger of the coronavirus was little understood in the early days of the Wuhan lockdown”. At one point, they feared for their safety and the project had to be halted when China began cracking down on non-official information being released from the country. However, after Wuhan’s lockdown was lifted, they were persuaded to return to ground zero.

Source: Hindustan Times September 15, 2020 06:12 UTC