Fear, Fury and the Coronavirus

The Daily

The New York Times

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4.4 • 102.8K Ratings

🗓️ 13 February 2020

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Note: This episode contains strong language in both English and Mandarin. What started as a story about fear of a new and dangerous virus has become a story of fury over the Chinese government’s handling of an epidemic. Today, one of our China correspondents takes us behind the scenes of Beijing’s response to a global outbreak. Guest: Amy Qin, a China correspondent for The New York Times. For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily. Background reading: President Xi Jinping faces an accelerating health crisis that is also a political one: a profound test of the authoritarian system he has built around himself over the past seven years.China’s leader, who rarely mingles with the public, visited several sites in Beijing and spoke to medical workers in Wuhan via video conferencing.Here are the latest updates on the global outbreak.

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0:32.6	It's a rainy day.
0:43.6	Very gloomy rainy day.
0:49.6	It's a little loud because you have to keep the windows open.
0:55.6	That's the recommendation in these situations.
0:58.4	You have to keep everything ventilated.
1:07.0	Two weeks ago, our researcher, Elsie and I went down to Wuhan, which is this major city
1:12.1	in the center of China that has been the epicenter of the recent coronavirus outbreak.
1:19.3	By then, it had been under lockdown for about a week and we were really curious to see
1:23.4	how people were fearing and what was going on, especially at the hospitals there.
1:29.7	We took the train from Beijing to Wuhan and we got off and what we saw was totally crazy.
1:36.6	I mean, we've never seen anything like it.
1:39.0	This is a city of 11 million that had come to a complete standstill.
1:43.3	It felt like being in a parallel reality.
1:48.5	To see those streets completely empty was really striking.
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