Wuhan, the city where the virus began, where the first hospitals were overloaded.

Thus paying will last my whole lifetime.

Where the first families endured the grief and the guilt.

He hoped I had come to save him but I failed. Home to 11 million people.

Wuhan is a city returning to life, but as the epicenter of a global disaster there are some enduring

questions here too.

How did the outbreak begin?

Could more have been done to contain it, and perhaps the biggest question of all,

one now entwined in politics, conspiracy theory, and fierce scientific debate.

Did the coronavirus come from nature or, as the US alleges,

did it leak from a lab?

I'm John Sudworth, the BBC's China correspondent,

and six months on from the first reported outbreak,

I'm traveling with my team to Wuhan

to try to look for answers to those questions.

As we'll discover, asking questions in Wuhan isn't easy.

I know the authorities want victims' families to remain silent.

This is assignment on the BBC World Service.

For two months, time stood still on the banks of the Yanksy River. The normally chugging ferry boats were quiet

at their moorings, and streets and boulevards were empty as this city endured one of the

world's harshest lockdowns.

Welcome to Blue Hand.

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