

Beijing: Chronicle of a Pandemic
At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, China quarantined millions and monitored everyone else. Follow a French journalist living in Beijing with his wife in isolation with nothing to do but shop online, cook, and occasionally visit their neighbors. When the government announced the end of the lockdown, daily activities slowly resumed, but with the threat of the virus still lingering in the air.
At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, China quarantined millions and monitored everyone else. Follow a French journalist living in Beijing with his wife in isolation with nothing to do but shop online, cook, and occasionally visit their neighbors. When the government announced the end of the lockdown, daily activities slowly resumed, but with the threat of the virus still lingering in the air.
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