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Feb 2020

18m 57s

Life inside the coronavirus quarantine

About this episode

Almost 60 million people in China are confined to their cities due to the 2019 novel coronavirus. Al Jazeera's senior cameraman in Beijing, Peng Peng, has been trapped in Hubei province for two weeks. Stuck 1,000 kilometers from home, he shares his story with The Take.

In this episode: Peng Peng, Al Jazeera's senior cameraman in Beijing, China. Scott McNabb, a research professor at the Emory University Rollins School of Public Health, Georgia, U.S.

For more:

Trapped in Hubei: A family under unexpected quarantine

China coronavirus outbreak: All the latest updates

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