Coronavirus: The Beijing Quarantine Diaries
2020
37 min
fr
Beijing, China, 2020. Empty streets, mandatory masks, checkpoints, the entire state apparatus used to impose severe restrictions on population movements. An entire country quarantined to fight a fierce epidemic…
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