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Outlook: Inside the hospitals of lockdown Wuhan

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Nurse at a hospital in Wuhan holding a grandmother's hand

03/02/2021 GMT

Inside the hospitals of lockdown Wuhan

BBC World Service - Outlook, Inside the hospitals of lockdown Wuhan

Filmmaker Hao Wu got unprecedented footage from four hospitals during Wuhan's lockdown

Chinese filmmaker Hao Wu watched the Coronavirus pandemic unfold as he put together a groundbreaking film about the 76 days of lockdown in Wuhan, from his home in New York.

When Chinese-American film director Hao Wu was approached to make a film about the 76 days of lockdown in Wuhan, he was eager to do it. Based in New York and unable to get back into China as the coronavirus outbreak continued to spread, Hao worked with two co-directors on the ground in Wuhan who got unprecedented access to four hospitals across the city. The resulting film 76 Days tells the moving stories of patients struggling to survive and the kindness of the frontline medical staff trying to save them. The film, co-directed by Weixi Chen and a third anonymous filmmaker, is out now.  

American mum Holly Jackson is on a mission, as she says, "to change lives, one wall at a time.” She's helping the country's poorest by placing small basic necessities such as shampoo, gloves and socks, in bags on walls in towns and cities around the US. Her non-profit organisation called Walls of Love has now helped over 100,000 people. Holly tells reporter Tara Gadomski how she was inspired to help people after being homeless herself.    

Audric de Campeau is passionate about bees. Although he had a good job in marketing, he quit his job so that he could follow his passion and now has beehives on the roofs of some of the most famous buildings in Paris. (This interview was first broadcast in 2017) 

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