Background: In many neighborhoods in Wuhan—the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak—people are not allowed to go grocery shopping on their own and must order food through their designated community delivery service. In one of these neighborhoods, residents tussle when the food was delivered and ready to be distributed to them.
Man in the background: So pitiable! What a miserable life!
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Location: People’s Liberation Army General Hospital, Beijing, China
Background: A patient who is not a COVID-19 patient tried to seek treatment in several hospitals in Beijing, but none of these hospitals accepted him. They told his family there are no hospital beds available for new patients.
Cameraman: I am taking this video at the People’s Liberation Army General Hospital. However, this hospital does not accept patients who need to be hospitalized, nor does it provide any treatment. We have also contacted several other hospitals in Beijing, including Chaoyang Hospital, Friendship Hospital, and several military hospitals. All told us the same thing: no hospital beds available. So presently, for this patient who is not a COVID-19 patient, does it mean during this very special period of time, all patients who are not COVID-19 patients won’t be able to receive any treatment? Aren’t they also patients who have the right to receive appropriate treatment? I have called the 12345 City Help Hotline to report the issue, but no one has offered any help. The patient, this person you see, I would say, can only wait to die. Is this still a hospital for the people, a hospital that claims to serve the people? What’s left for us to do? The patient can only wait for his death. There is no other solution.
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Background: Li Zehua, 25, a former China Central TV anchor, went to Wuhan to report on the coronavirus outbreak through Youtube. He visited stores, hospitals, crematoriums, and virology research labs in his search for information about the origin of Coronavirus and the daily life of patients and Wuhan residents.
On Feb. 26, he said live video that he was likely pursued by covert police who followed his car closely. These people then followed him to his home. Prior to his arrest, he live-streamed one final video to viewers, a passionate speech calling for young people to stand up and speak the truth.
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Late in the evening, a light suddenly turns on inside a unit. People in protective suits appear to take away the dead body of a resident who recently passed away.
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Background: Wuhan, the capital city of Hubei Province, is where the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) originated from. Social media users in Hubei Province reported numerous sightings of unusual animal behaviors during the coronavirus outbreak, and want to know why such things are happening.
Someone provided a possible answer as to why large numbers of crows were observed in Hubei.
“The crow is a carrion-eater. The elderly say that crows seem to anticipate death because they can smell it, even before a person dies. In other words, they can smell the odor of a dying person; but we humans cannot,” he wrote. “They will then circle around this person waiting for him to die. That is why in Chinese culture, crows are considered inauspicious and are always linked with death.”
Video #1
Location: Wuhan City, Hubei Province
Description: A huge flock of crows
Video #2
Location: Yichang City, Hubei Province
Man in the background: Oh my God, it is said that abnormal scenes predict something unusual is about to happen.
Video #3
Location: Jingzhou City, Hubei Province
Video #4
Location: Wuhan City, Hubei Province
Description: Fish Jump Out of Water
Man in the background: Did you see that? Those who came to fish only need to pick them up. Absolutely free. Just pick them up. Take as many as you can. So many fish are jumping out of the water. Our current location is Xinhe Bridge. These fish are getting crazy. They are insane. Pick them up directly. They all jumped out. Did you see that? Have you ever seen such a scene before?
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Background: Wuhan has been under lockdown for more than a month, and there is a shortage of vegetables. In many places, residents are prohibited from going grocery shopping and food ordered through designated community delivery services can be expensive. However, vegetable donations made to the city are either stolen or thrown before they can be delivered to hungry residents.
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Background: A passenger on the No. 851 bus with a fever of 102 degrees Fahrenheit fell to the ground. All passengers were ordered to follow police and medical staff to undergo quarantined.
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Location: Wuhan Yangtze River Bridge, Wuhan City, Hubei Province, China
Date: February 26th, Night
Volunteer Zheng Nengliang and his friend Hu Hengbing came across a middle-aged homeless couple while driving across the Wuhan Yangtze River Bridge. The couple when asked said they traveled from Xianning, Hubei, before the Chinese Lunar New Year, to see a doctor in Wuhan. Now they are not allowed to leave Wuhan as the city is in lockdown. After spending all their money, they became homeless—unable to afford any food or accommodation.
Mr. Zheng smelled a strong sour scent from the couple. Apparently, they had not bathed or changed clothes for a long time. His wife looked weak and shivered with cold.
Mr. Zheng offered to find some quilts for the poor couple, while Hu Hengbing took off his jacket for the wife and gave them the last three biscuits in the car.
*The Chinese Lunar New Year Date in 2020 was January 25th.
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Location: Zhangwan District in Shiyan City, Hubei Province, China
Date: February 24th, 2020
Zhangwan District in Shiyan City, Hubei Province, is the first administrative region in China to implement “wartime control” in response to the coronavirus outbreak. From Feb. 13 onwards, all buildings have been completely closed. Government staff are delivering supplies to each community.
On the afternoon of Feb. 24, Tan Minhua, a 71-year-old retired worker from Dongfeng Automobile factory, was found dead in his home by a community worker who went to his residence to take his temperature. There, he found Tan’s grandson. Less than six years old, the boy might have spent three days alone with Tan’s dead body. The child said he had survived eating cookies.
According to Chinese state media, the child’s father is working in Liuzhou City, Guangxi Province, and could not return home immediately.
This tragedy is the second of its kind reported in Hubei province in the past month. The first incident took place on Jan. 29, when Yan Cheng, a 17-year-old with cerebral palsy in Hongan County, Hubei province, starved to death at home after his father developed a fever and was taken away for quarantine.
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Today is Feb. 27, and these patients have just arrived by air today. Look at how we are being quarantined here. Five of us are kept in the same ward. Is this called quarantine?
The head nurse has the door locked from outside so that no one can escape.
I am referring to the medical staff at the Occupational Disease Hospital of Fushun City.
Here is Occupational Disease Hospital of Fushun City.
These people you see are patients under what they call “quarantine”, keeping several people locked up together. The patients feel helpless and almost want to commit suicide by jumping out the window.
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Background: Thousands of workers are waiting outside of an industrial park in Shanghai park waiting to return to work. The park’s shuttle bus is still unloading more workers to this location.
There is no one here to manage the crowd or advise people on coronavirus prevention measures. View on YouTube
Background: Authorities announced on Feb. 24 that they would ease lockdown measures on Hubei Province, the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak. Hours later, Hubei authorities retracted the announcement. But people outside Hubei took this to mean the dangers of the fast-spreading coronavirus have eased. Some rushed to leave their homes. In this video, thousands of Shenyang residents lined up in front of a local restaurant called “The Yangs’ Deli,” acclaimed as the best deli cafe in Shenyang. Many did not wear a facial mask to protect themselves.
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Background: A Chinese woman from Wuhan City videotaped herself lashing out at the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). The video was recorded on Jan. 26 and has since gone viral among Chinese social media users.
Location: China
Date: Jan. 26th
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Background:
The Wenzhou municipal government has forced local companies to resume operations. Businesses were previously on a long break in an effort to curb the spread of the coronavirus. But China’s central government, fearing long-term losses for the economy, ordered all companies to resume operations on Feb. 10. The Wenzhou government set a 3,000-kilowatt-hour power consumption as a hard target. If a factory fails to resume normal daily operations, the factory owner will face serious punishment. One factory owner pretended that his factory had resumed operations by turning on machines and letting them run without producing anything. In fact, his employees have not returned to work yet and he still needs to get raw materials ready.
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