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Pandemic 2020

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Series telling the global story of the first year of the pandemic.

As the news of Covid-19 broke, no one knew what to expect. Shot in 21 countries, personal stories from the extraordinary first year of the virus that is changing our world.

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Pandemic 2020: Series 1: Brave New World

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Brave New World

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As the pandemic continues, reason and science battle conspiracy and denial.

From the Amazon to churches in the US and the slums of Delhi, reason and science battle conspiracy and denial.

As the pandemic continues, people are increasingly looking for someone to blame, and asking whether life can ever return to normal. Covid-19 deniers become more numerous and vocal as alternative and conspiratorial thought battles conventional science-based reason.

Prakash, a wedding singer from Delhi, begins to question why lockdown continues while so many in his community are unaffected by the virus. In Louisiana, Pastor Spell faces jail after he refuses to close his church or observe social distancing. He believes that the dangers of the virus have been exaggerated to politically discredit President Trump.

Abu is from East London and is a member of the Bangladeshi community who have suffered a disproportionate number of deaths during the pandemic. He runs a charity that helps families meet burial costs. One of the families he helps is Sheouli’s, whose husband died of Covid-19, leaving her and their six-year-old son behind. Meanwhile, Takuma, from an indigenous community in the Amazon, helps his village prepare for the inevitable arrival of the virus.

The film ends on New Year’s Eve 2020, exactly a year after the series started. The first vaccine in the world has just been given at a hospital in Coventry, England, where Amie - the doctor featured in the first episode - works. She is in bed - sick with Covid.

Pandemic 2020: Series 1

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