On the last day of 2019, China announced it had detected a “pneumonia of unknown cause” in the city of Wuhan. It was the first time the world got notice of what was about to hit. One hundred days later, the Covid-19 virus has spread to almost every country and has resulted in billions of people now living under lockdown.
The Guardian’s world affairs correspondent, Michael Safi, and its diplomatic editor, Patrick Wintour, join Anushka Asthana to discuss how events unfolded.
Now, as China prepares to ease its own lockdown and start returning to normal life, our Beijing bureau chief, Lily Kuo, returns to the re-opened city of Wuhan.
Photograph: Héctor Retamal/AFP via Getty Images
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