The Virus That Shook The World (Part One)

(bell tolling, fireworks exploding) (cheers) ("Auld Lang Syne" playing) >> Happy New Year!

>> On New Year's Eve, I was so happy that 2019 was ending, because 2019 was rough!

Um, so... (laughs) >> What did I do?

Um...

I don't have a clue of what I do for New Year's Eve.

It was... before times, before corona.

>> I turned 40 last year, so it was like, this is my 40th, we need to do loads of amazing things and we planned lots of amazing things.

It was gonna be a brilliant year.

Um... Yeah.

♪ ♪ (sirens wailing) >> The latest figures show that there've been 177 deaths... >> Cases are now accelerating rapidly.

More than 40,000 people have been infected... >> One million deaths from the coronavirus.

♪ ♪ >> PRAKESH (speaking Hindi): ♪ ♪ >> We are the heroes because we have exposed this "scamdemic" for what it is.

>> COVID is not more worse compared to other things that we've seen.

(explosions, shouting) ♪ ♪ (chanting) >> I don't know how we will go back to the normal life.

Everywhere there's a shift that's happening.

>> CARLOS VALENCIA (speaking Spanish): ♪ ♪ >> DARLY (speaking Portuguese): NARRATOR: Now a FRONTLINE special presentation: The Virus That Shook The World.

>> (speaking Mandarin): >> INTERVIEWER (speaking Mandarin): (laughter) >> XIE QIONGAYO: >> Hey, you guys.

>> Hello!

>> Hello.

>> It's nice to see you.

>> INTERVIEWER: ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> XIE: ♪ ♪ (dogs barking in distance) >> Tonight, concern around the world over a mysterious strain of coronavirus.

>> 170 people in Wuhan have been treated in hospital, several are critically ill, and three deaths have been confirmed.

(overlapping voices) >> Chinese authorities are saying that this new coronavirus is preventable and controllable.

A city of 11 million people, effectively quarantined.

(ambulance siren wailing) >> XIE: ♪ ♪ (singing): (speaking): >> WOMAN: >> XIE: >> WOMAN: >> WOMAN: >> XIE: ♪ ♪ >> Wuhan's medics are locked in a daily battle against this epidemic.

>> The virus has spread to every region in China.

(overlapping voices) There's been 259 deaths so far.

(sirens wailing) >> In Wuhan, two large, brand new hospitals are being built in little more than a week.

>> XIE: >> XIE: (light cough) >> MEDICAL STAFF (in unison): (music playing) >> YANG: >> XIE: (music continues) >> Happy birthday to you!

Happy birthday, dear Amy!

Happy birthday to you!

(cheers and applause) (blows out candles, laughter) (party audio abruptly stops) >> I didn't realize that you actually use those boards.

(laughs) >> INTERVIEWER: Yeah.

>> Amazing.

(laughs) It's made my day!

(chuckles) Um, I'm Amie Burbridge.

I'm a mom, I grew up in Wolverhampton, and when I grew up I wanted to be a makeup artist.

And somehow I ended up as a doctor.

♪ ♪ Sometime in January, we jokingly were talking about COVID, like... (scoffs) And it just didn't seem real.

It was, you know, thousands of miles away, so, it was irrelevant to us, really.

>> I first heard about it in January, but it wasn't in Kenya.

I knew it's a disease of the, the whites, the Western people.

>> (speaking Spanish): >> We didn't think too much of it because it was in China, you know?

A long ways from us.

>> (speaking Icelandic): >> Then Italy started and still you're like, "Oh, poor Italian, poor Italian, they are really having it hard, hm?"

Yeah, yeah.

It's completely crazy just really playing the ostrich, which put a head in the sand.

♪ ♪ (car horn honking) >> (speaking Italian): >> BURBRIDGE: I have colleagues working in Italy that were sending pictures, that were describing the patients they were seeing, the number of people dying, the number of people in intensive care units.

And it still didn't feel real.

"Right, it's not-- it's not gonna be us."

Um... um, yeah.

♪ ♪ >> WOMAN (speaking Italian): (sighs tearfully) (crying) ♪ ♪ (muffled, labored breaths) (labored breathing continues) (medical equipment beeping) (muffled crosstalk, coughing) (overlapping beeping, coughing, talking) (coughing) >> (speaking Italian): (draining sound) ♪ ♪ (medical equipment beeping) (overlapping voices) >> The coronavirus continues to spread at speed.

There are close to 90,000 cases worldwide.

The vast majority of new cases are outside China.

♪ ♪ >> BURBRIDGE: I was getting scared by now.

Because we knew in early March that that would be us a few weeks down the line.

I remember my first individual who was diagnosed with COVID-19.

And it was like, "Oh, my God, it's come, it's arrived."

Um, and it was, uh... a shock, that first case, 'cause it was quite early on, actually.

I can't remember the exact date.

We didn't really know how to manage it because nobody did.

There wasn't any research, there wasn't any evidence.

(indistinct chatter) Yeah, who else have we got for medics just so I'm on top of it?

That's it, isn't it then?

Ooh, thank you!

Okay... She's poorly, isn't she?

(audio fades) ♪ ♪ A lot of the stuff we did in the early stages turned out to be wrong, some of the treatments that we tried, because we didn't know.

I went from having an incredible conversation with a lovely, lovely individual, um, and within two hours, um... she'd been transferred to the intensive care unit.

She was intubated, she was ventilated, and she died.

And I did absolutely nothing to help her, apart from give her false hope-- to her and her family.

"Oh, it's absolutely fine, we'll give her some oxygen, you'll be fine," and she died and that was my first, um, patient who died.

And I remember her hair, her makeup, I remember what she was wearing.

I remember her name, I remember everything.

I just felt like I was a bystander.

Hm, and I've felt like that in a lot of cases.

Because people just deteriorated quickly and died.

We need to keep you in hospital.

>> Yes.

>> BURBRIDGE: You have COVID-19.

>> Yes.

>> BURBRIDGE: Are you-- you know you have coronavirus?

So we need to keep you in hospital, and we'll just keep a close eye on you tonight, okay?

>> Okay.

>> BURBRIDGE: Can I listen to your chest?

>> Yes.

>> BURBRIDGE: Okay.

You feel very hot.

(heavy coughing) >> Europe has now become the epicenter of the pandemic.

>> The government acknowledges that millions of us may get COVID-19 because the virus can't be stopped.

>> Now is the time for everyone to stop non-essential contact with others.

>> Spain declared a state of emergency on Saturday, placing the country in lockdown.

>> (speaking Spanish): (laughter) >> France is the latest country to take drastic measures to control the coronavirus pandemic.

>> (speaking French): >> VERONIQUE (speaking French): >> VERONIQUE: >> A day of somber language... (overlapping voices) >> The pandemic is bringing life in the United States to a grinding halt.

♪ ♪ >> My name is Dan Rossi, I live in New York and I'm a vendor.

You know, we sell hot dogs in front of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

And we've been there about 13 years, but I've been in the business 40.

40 years.

We got hit hard.

You go down New York City, you expect mobs-- there was nobody.

It was like a ghost town.

You know, people did what they had to do.

But we got hit hard.

And that location, in front of the Met?

It's basically a tourist destination.

And the only thing these tourists want is a New York hot dog, and it can be pretty, uh... rough, sometimes, you gotta really move sometimes, real fast.

Everyone's talking their different language, you don't know what the hell anybody's saying, but they point to a picture and you give them a hot dog-- it's fun, it is, you know.

♪ ♪ Uh...

I said, well, in two months, I'm in the red.

I need maybe $2,000 or $3,000 a month.

To get us through, I'm gonna borrow that money, I'm gonna find someone and borrow the money, I know people who borrow the money.

I've been in some really tough situations in my life, and this just seemed like, if it... if it's just money, we'll get through it, if it's just money.

And I'll make sure everything's okay.

You know, don't panic, just... it'll play out, it'll be all right.

Ah...

So what do you wanna do?

I got a marriage, I've got four daughters, I've got 14 grandchildren.

My oldest grandson is 21 and my youngest granddaughter is three-months-old, so that's quite a mix, you know.

Get outta here.

Leave this kid alone.

That's what makes me go to work.

Knowing that I have responsibilities.

>> Yes, Vinny, yes!

>> Keep your mouth closed.

Keep your mouth closed!

(laughter, weight clanging) >> ROSSI: I went ahead and I set up an area for weights and everything so my grandsons could work out, you know.

(indistinct chatter) I mean I think those few months were the hardest months of my life, just staying home, you know, and doing nothing-- how can you do nothing every day, you know?

Anybody who retires has gotta be crazy.

How can you, how can you not work-- I don't get it.

(laughs) It was pretty boring, I gotta tell you.

(laughs) I understand everything that's going on, and it's the right thing to do, the distancing, the keep things closed, the open things up in portions, I understand all that.

But it's still taking a very big impact... >> Yeah.

>> ROSSI: On everybody, and I'm not just talking about us.

(clanging sound) Sitting around everyday, every day, I go downtown every day, I sit there for a few hours and there's absolutely nothing going on-- nothing.

>> It's crazy.

>> ROSSI: This time, if it was a normal year... >> We'd be so busy.

>> ROSSI: But we're all right, God bless America.

♪ ♪ (engine rumbles) ♪ ♪ >> VALENCIA (speaking Spanish): (radio playing) ♪ ♪ (engines revving) >> (on phone): >> VALENCIA: >> (on phone): (engines revving) ♪ ♪ >> VALENCIA: ♪ ♪ (indistinct chatter) (music playing) >> (speaking Spanish): >> VALENCIA: (man singing in Spanish) >> MAN: (cheers) (cheers and applause) ♪ ♪ >> VALENCIA: ♪ ♪ >> The Colombian army fighting the guerillas on a growing number of fronts.

The guerillas and the drug cartels are shipping up cocaine and heroin at will.

♪ ♪ >> VALENCIA: ♪ ♪ (laughter) (phone vibrating) >> CHILD (on phone): >> VALENCIA: >> CHILD: >> VALENCIA: >> CHILD: (laughs) >> VALENCIA: >> CHILD: Sí.

>> VALENCIA: (cheering on phone video) >> Coronavirus has reached every continent except Antarctica.

(overlapping voices) >> The number of infections worldwide, 400,019... (news reports in multiple languages) >> In Wuhan, which has been on lockdown for nearly two months, the quarantine rules have been slightly relaxed.

If no new cases are reported for 14 days, the restrictions could be reduced further.

♪ ♪ >> XIE: >> YANG: >> XIE: (humming happily) (folk music playing) >> Belarus resisted a lockdown together.

The country's football matches are still being played.

President Alexander Lukashenko has suggested vodka would help against the disease.

>> (singing in Belarusian): (singing where video left off) (accordion solo) >> KOLANTAY (in Belarusian): >> (singing): >> ♪ We don't need no Coronavirus, we don't want now just to stay at home ♪ >> (speaking Portuguese): >> It goes away, it's going away.

Let's see how it all works out but I think it's gonna work out fine.

You do certain things that you do when you have the flu, I mean, view this this the same as the flu.

>> Meanwhile, in New York, they're struggling to manage the sheer number of deaths.

(Belarussian song continues) >> ♪ We don't need no... ♪ >> ...Chinese virus.

>> ♪ We don't want now just to stay at home ♪ (finishes song) >> ROSSI: I did two tours in Vietnam, enlisted when I was 17 right out of high school.

Donald Trump is not the kind of guy who I would ever want to be leading me, he just doesn't have it, you can just see it.

♪ ♪ All we had to do was just say, let's take a precaution and wear a mask.

But his arrogance and stupidity, thinking that he's smarter than the doctors, that he's smarter than everyone, it just... he's gotten a lot of people killed.

His thing was this virus is gonna disappear, why do I need a mask?

You gotta be a clown to wear a mask, I'm a tough guy, you know.

It's stupid, people, people are dying, you know?

What is the big deal about wearing a mask-- what's the big deal, you know?

(birds chirping) Every day I would go down there sometimes twice a day and just check on the cart.

What we would do is we kept the carts in position where we work.

So that nobody takes my spot, you know?

I do that a few nights a week.

And then I have somebody else check on it the nights that I'm not there.

I'll be sleeping there tonight, so yeah.

No one's gonna help you, you know?

You're on your own.

We had one year... there was a blizzard.

We're talking snow.

And I did a $600 day.

In a blizzard, where people couldn't even move, I mean, that's how bad it was.

Now there's zero.

♪ ♪ (applause, whistling) ♪ ♪ (clanging, applause) (applause) (more applause, ringing) (siren wailing) (clanging) >> Good evening, it is 8:00 and this is for Britain's NHS workers, carers, and everyone helping to fight this coronavirus pandemic.

(applause, clanging) (applauding) (applause) >> BURBRIDGE: Oh, has it started?

Ooh... Ah!

(applause, cheers, whistles) (laughs) >> Thank you!

>> BURBRIDGE: It's amazing... (cheers, applause) Do you know, I'd forgotten about that.

Isn't that crazy that so much has happened, that every Thursday, 8:00 p.m., clap for carers, yeah, yeah.

(cheers, applause) Lockdown was the right thing to do.

And when it did happen it was like, oh, this is, this is what we need.

On your marks... get set... >> Go!

>> BURBRIDGE: But, I knew everything was gonna change.

The children went to stay with their dad, because I was like, I can't contact them, they can't come to the house, because the house is clearly riddled with COVID, and if they walk in they're gonna get it and they're gonna get sick.

Just thinking about it now, the fact that, um...

I couldn't hug my children... Yeah, it was, it was horrible.

Hm.

What was incredible, everybody just did it.

When we were meant to finish work, often we just hung around in the wellness of chatting, because we didn't really want to go home, because a lot of us were going home to empty houses.

We've finished work and we've decided to have a dance!

Whoo!

(cheerful music playing) (laughter) >> ♪ Come on, baby let's get it on ♪ Like a... ♪ I got a whole lotta lovin' ♪ ♪ Ooh yeah!

♪ ♪ ♪ (laughs) Oh, God... We laughed, we cried, and it just brought us together, and it was, it was magical.

We even had disco lights.

You know, we really made it a big thing.

(laughs) Um... you know, everybody was dancing.

>> The latest figures show that there have been 177 deaths.

>> Cases are now accelerating rapidly.

>> 335 people have died from coronavirus, that's six times more than last week.

(coughing) >> 5,373 people have died in hospital.

The U.K. could become the worst- affected country in Europe.

♪ ♪ >> BURBRIDGE: Nobody should have to die alone.

No one-- that is not dignified, that is not humane.

Yet, that's what was happening every single day.

You've got some incredible people who've done incredible things, have incredible lives, and then they pass away, and they've got me there.

And it seems so unfair on them and their family-- it's cruel.

It's a bloody cruel disease.

Um...

It's... it's just crap.

It's horrible, and... (sighs) And, um...

I... yeah.

Mm.

(sniffles) (deep exhale) >> ARNY (speaking Icelandic): (waves crashing) ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ (indistinct chatter) ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> (speaking Icelandic): >> ARNY (on iPad): >> ARNY: Hello, Mama!

>> WOMAN: >> ARNY: >> WOMAN: >> ARNY (voiceover): >> WOMAN: >> ARNY (on iPad): >> WOMAN: >> ARNY: >> WOMAN: >> ARNY: >> ARNY (voiceover): (indistinct chatter) ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> (speaking Icelandic): >> ARNY (voiceover): >> (speaking Icelandic): ♪ ♪ (deep exhale) >> The World Health Organization says that the number of coronavirus cases around the world is set to hit a million within the next few days.

>> ARNY: Hmm.

♪ ♪ >> Let's take a brief look at some of the other coronavirus developments around the world today.

The prime minister is spending a second night in intensive care being treated for coronavirus.

The U.S. state of New York is on the verge of overtaking Italy for confirmed cases.

The Chinese city where COVID-19 first emerged, the city of Wuhan, has allowed people to leave the area for the first time since it went into lockdown in late January.

>> After its initial faltering steps, China eventually hit this virus hard, shutting its whole economy down, and while there is some doubt about the detail of the official figures, it's clear the government believes the trend is going in the right direction, which is why today we've seen the re-opening of the city where this whole thing began.

♪ ♪ >> XIE: (both speaking Mandarin) >> YANG:eaking Mandarin) ♪ ♪ >> XIE: >> YANG: ♪ ♪ >> TRAIN ANNOUNCER: >> XIE: >> YANG: ♪ ♪ >> YANG: >> XIE: >> TESTER: >> YANG: >> XIE: >> YANG: ♪ ♪ >> VALENCIA: (blowing horns) (crowd chanting, blowing horns) ♪ ♪ (crowd chanting, blowing horns) (crowd chanting, tapping object) >> OFFICER: (countdown continues, crowd chanting) ♪ ♪ (loud bangs) >> VALENCIA: ♪ ♪ (shouting, whistle blowing) (crowd chanting) (crowd shouting, whistling) >> America, baby!

♪ ♪ >> That's the thing about COVID-19, it doesn't care about how rich you are, how famous you are.

>> Is that Madonna?

>> How funny you are.

It's the great equalizer.

And what's terrible about it is it's made us all equal in many ways.

And what's wonderful about it is that it's made us all equal in many ways.

>> Girl, bye.

Like what?

I knew Madonna was out there already, but she's... no, girl.

It's not the great equalizer.

Yeah.

I mean, and then folks are like shocked when other folks say, "Eat the rich."

I mean it's stuff like that, that makes them look pretty yummy.

So... (laughs) ♪ ♪ >> We can beat the virus only through solidarity.

It is time to leave no one behind.

(overlapping reporter chatter) >> ...more draconian measures across the globe... >> We are all in this together.

♪ ♪ >> All right, guys, come on, let's get back into it.

And one, two, three...

So my name is Tanya Denise Fields.

Come on, one, two...

Founder and executive director of the Black Feminist Project, Bronx-based activist and, um... yeah.

Do you want more than that or... Five!

Turn!

I have an 18-year-old and a 16-year-old.

Turn!

And then I have a 12-year-old and an 11-year-old.

And then I have a six-year-old and a five-year-old.

Thomas, you see where everybody's going?

Get on beat.

Hop!

Come on, come on!

By the third week of March I had pulled my children out of school, and then three days later, the whole country shut down.

♪ ♪ Unless we absolutely have to, we are not going outside.

And so it was just me, and my partner, and six children in this three-bedroom apartment, in a five-story walk up.

And we were scared.

♪ ♪ >> IVAN VASILIEV (in Russian): ♪ ♪ >> Actually, I... the first six weeks I loved the lockdown.

I was enjoying the streets of Beirut empty.

It was amazing, actually.

You could hear, you know, the birds.

You could see cats all over.

It was, you know, a city for cats all over Beirut.

(cat meowing) I remember I would sit on the balcony at night and I would say, "Carol, maybe this is the last time you hear the silence."

It was fantastic.

♪ ♪ (whispering, speaking French): >> My name is Veronique De Viguerie.

I've got two daughters-- Lou, who is now eight years old, and Ella, who is six years old.

They hate my job.

>> Why do they hate your job?

>> Because I'm away too much.

My little one will say when we are having a big cuddle before bedtime like, "Do you prefer me and Lou or do you prefer all of these kids that you're taking pictures of?"

You know I try to involve them a bit too, but it's not working very well really.

You have a lot of people who will say, "Yeah, you know, conflict photographer.

You are just, you know, looking for your adrenaline dose, and you are just completely hooked with it."

And, um... Yeah, maybe... yeah, part of it is true.

Some people are scared of death.

Me, I'm more, like my biggest fear is not to live my life.

♪ ♪ >> VALERIE (in French): >> VALERIA: We enter a lockdown in all of France.

And there is a bit of a panic.

Benoit, the father of my kids, is the kind of guy who always think about the worst.

So he's telling me, "It's going to be kind of civil war," and I'm like, "Come on, calm down."

And then, we had these friends and she said, you know, "That's it for me, I'm taking my two daughters, and I'm moving to my parents' house, which is one hour away from Paris.

Do you want to come with me?"

And I'm like, well, I didn't think really of that.

And Benoit is like, you know, "We should go.

I think we should go.

We have to go, but we have to go now.

I'm leaving tonight with the girls.

What do you want to do?

Are you with us or do you stay here?"

And this is a big question.

If I don't go with them, I am a bad mother, and if I go with them, I am a bad reporter.

So... Yeah, I chose to be a good reporter.

♪ ♪ I went to say goodbye and I took the picture.

It was helpful for me to have this camera to keep my tears up, because I didn't want my daughter to see me crying.

I didn't want them to... see me... yeah, crying or fragile.

♪ ♪ At the beginning of lockdown, I was just doing, yeah, this kind of symbolic places to show the emptiness.

♪ ♪ Then, I started to go more in the suburb of Paris, where people are a lot poorer.

♪ ♪ I went to a flat where like there were like nine kids and two parents, the six sister sleeping in the same bedroom right on bunk beds.

They are going to be locked down, like 11 of them in this small flat.

♪ ♪ >> What is the password to this?

What is that again?

Raising a family in the Bronx I imagine is not any different than raising a family anywhere else, and then it's a crap ton different.

>> One more set.

One more set.

>> There would be days that my children would not go outside.

>> Take up plenty of space.

>> Like I'm homeschooling now, you know, I'm on my Laura Ingalls (bleep).

(laughs) You know, like, like some urban pandemic version of "Little House on the Prairie."

I'll let your teachers know that I'm going to let you take a nap for about two hours, okay?

I'm going to leave that running so that I can hear what they're working on.

>> If you want I can text you the, the information?

>> Yes, that'd be helpful.

Hunter come in the room and she be like, "Mom."

I be like, "Yeah."

She be like, "Is the coronavirus still out there?

When the coronavirus gonna leave?"

Like the coronavirus to her is a person.

Like it's a burglar on the loose.

Like... (laughs) (sirens blaring) ♪ ♪ >> New York, New York.

The worst affected city in what's now the worst affected country.

>> Statistics show the poorest neighborhoods have been hit hardest.

(siren blaring) ♪ ♪ >> How is it?

>> Hell.

Biblical.

I kid you not.

People come in, they get intubated, they die, the cycle repeats.

♪ ♪ (siren blaring) >> When we talk about essential workers, it was like people in doctor's coats.

But essential workers also look like the people who clean up behind doctors, right?

Essential workers are the folks who serve you your food at the McDonalds and the Burger Kings.

Those never closed.

Who's doing that work?

♪ ♪ Those are folks who are classified as lower on the socio-economic ladder and those people live in the Bronx, those people live in very specific communities in Brooklyn, those people live in Jamaica Queens.

(sirens blaring) Yeah, lockdown looked different.

♪ ♪ >> I've been watching that for the last week on television-- body bags all over, in hallways.

I've been watching them bring in trailer trucks, freezer trucks, freezer trucks.

Because they can't handle the bodies, there's so many of them.

This is in my... essentially in my community, in Queens.

Queens, New York.

I've seen things that I've never seen before.

I mean I've seen them, but I've seen them on television in faraway lands.

I've never seen them in our country.

♪ ♪ >> I want to inform you that the Minister of Health has confirmed the first coronavirus case in Kenya.

♪ ♪ (crowd singing) >> KHADIJA MOYO (in Swahili): (people chattering) (people laughing, speaking Swahili) (dance music playing) (Khadija laughing) (dance music continues) (Khadija speaking Swahili) ♪ ♪ (dogs barking) >> My name is Benta Agola.

I live in Kibera, Nairobi.

♪ ♪ I knew the life we were living, I knew very well that the social distance, it wouldn't work for us.

And life goes on, yeah.

(children chattering) Just pass, pass.

You have to excuse her to pass.

Just pass, pass.

We were not ready to face the reality.

Just saw death.

We just saw death coming.

♪ ♪ (horn honking) >> There will be a daily curfew from 7:00 p.m. to 5:00 a.m. in the morning.

These additional measures have been taken as a clear result of Kenyans failing to heed to advice.

♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> The curfew, it didn't work for us, people living in the slums.

(man shouting in Swahili) I think all slum dwellers, the way the police look at us, is like we are associated with crime, with gangs.

(shouting in Swahili) When four policemen beat you up, you know, it's so painful.

(shouting in Swahili) (sirens blaring) And the police deal with us ruthlessly.

(shouting, gunshots) People lost so much, people lost so much.

(whistle blowing) They even killed people, they killed people just to get them to their houses.

(crowd shouting) >> MAN: >> In fact, in Kibera, COVID didn't kill as much compared to the police.

Police did much killing.

Yes.

♪ ♪ (chopping) ♪ ♪ >> KHADIJA: ♪ ♪ (man shouting in Swahili) >> HUSSEIN MOYO: ♪ ♪ (birds twittering) >> VASILIEV: ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ (cheers and applause) ♪ ♪ >> A quarter of the world's population is now living under some form of lockdown due to coronavirus.

More than three billion people in almost 70 countries.

>> The World Health Organization warns countries across the globe not to end the coronavirus lockdown too soon.

>> Make no mistake.

We have a long way to go.

This virus will be with us for a a long time.

>> MAN (on phone, in Italian): >> MATTEO DERAI: >> FOSCA BALLARDINI: >> MAN (on phone): ♪ ♪ >> In Spain, children aren't allowed to leave the house at all.

And concerns are mounting about the impact on children's mental and physical health.

♪ ♪ >> CARMEN VALLE (in Spanish): >> CHRISTIAN VALLE: ♪ ♪ >> Coo coo.

(in French): So, at this point, it's maybe like five weeks without seeing each other.

My kids are okay, but Benoit is starting to get really, really annoyed.

Basically at the beginning he was like, "Please don't come, you know, you might be contaminated," and all that.

But at some point he called me and he told me, you know, "I don't care if you are contaminated, but just come now, because I cannot take it anymore!"

♪ ♪ >> BENOIT: ♪ ♪ Suddenly, you know, suddenly life is taking another rhythm.

(girl shouting in French) Now I am in the countryside and the only thing we have to do is homeschooling and getting the meal ready.

♪ ♪ I have just to be there for my kids and adapt to this very slow motion.

Just try to penetrate their world.

(laughing) ♪ ♪ (girl roaring) (Veronique speaking French) (girl screaming, laughter) ♪ ♪ >> VERONIQUE: >> GIRL AND VERONIQUE: ♪ ♪ One day "Paris Match" called me and say, you ready for a job?

Like, in three or four days?

I'm like, "Yeah!

Okay, I'm ready."

And then he was like, "Well, okay, you go to Brazil."

♪ ♪ Brazil was all over the news being the new epicenter of the epidemic.

It did look like it was going to be massive in Brazil.

Bolsonaro was completely pretending that it was not happening, making things worse.

(crowd cheering) ♪ ♪ >> For the first time, the country's daily death toll reached 1,000 people.

>> Endless fresh graves for the dead, who also seem to never stop arriving.

♪ ♪ >> I was horrified.

Everybody presumably died of COVID was in a like kind of mass grave.

♪ ♪ And they don't start the burial before there are five, you know, otherwise it's not worth making the thing work.

So they wait for five coffins, then they put the five coffin in the hole, five coffin... Like in two minutes it's done.

♪ ♪ (truck beeping) It was very shocking to me that the digger not even stopping during the five minutes of little ceremony.

So it's, you know, it's like really like a factory or industrial burial with one after the other.

(truck beeping, people singing) And the chaos of, you know, these holes everywhere.

And the machine digging, digging, digging, digging, you know.

There is no time to...

There is no time to die even, yeah.

(shouting, horns honking) Going to the graveyard, we passed through a protest, pro Bolsonaro.

Which was, they were like, "Yeah, we don't want a lockdown.

We are with you, Bolsonaro."

So they were basically, you know, denying completely the... the virus.

It's like if it is a disease, very dangerous for the poor, and annoying for the not so poor.

>> Hey, Chris!

He still safe?

>> ...tired of them deciding we're essential or not.

We the people!

(person cheering) >> Let freedom ring!

>> There you go!

>> Open L.A.!

(car horns honking) >> These protesters were not interested in social distancing.

As activists held their rally outside the state capitol building here, many are openly dismissive of the science, and increasingly seething at the economic costs that they are paying.

>> I get tired of the media turning around and saying, "Hey, don't you care about... about sick people or whatever?"

It's like, what are you talking about?

Everybody is well!

(crowd cheering, applause) >> Thousands descending on Michigan's capitol in Lansing to protest the governor's current stay-at-home rules.

>> These are people expressing their views, I see where they are, and I see the way they're working-- they seem to be very responsible people to me.

>> Let us in!

Let us in!

Let us in!

Let us in!

Let us in!

Let us in!

(chanting fading) ♪ ♪ (deep exhale) >> Um... May 25 becomes another date that will forever mark the spark of this incendiary, social... thing that we live in.

I don't really always know how to describe it because I feel like as a Black person you always know it's there.

>> I can't breathe, officer.

(George Floyd groaning) >> Shut up!

>> Trying to killing me.

They're gonna kill me, man.

♪ ♪ >> People all across this country watched a man have the life gleefully-- gleefully-- choked out of him.

Was it heartbreaking?

Absolutely.

Was it surprising?

No.

This happens every day across this country.

And finally, in this time, during a pandemic, Black folks said enough is enough.

>> I can't breathe!

>> I can't breathe!

>> I can't breathe!

>> I can't breathe!

>> I can't breathe!

>> I can't breathe!

(crowd chanting "George Floyd") >> Massive crowds swarming cities across the country are choosing social justice over social distancing.

>> I don't think that Black Lives Matter would have had the traction had it not been for corona, they are inextricably linked.

>> No justice, no peace!

>> The president's tweet, an extraordinary line, "When the looting starts, the shooting starts."

>> When this president talks about (bleep) countries, he is talking about us.

We are the (bleep) country.

"Make America great again."

Great again for who?

Because it was never great for large groups of people.

>> I think I understand some piece of the anger you're feeling.

I'm still beseeching you, we are still all in this together.

(crowd shouting, siren blaring) >> No more tolerance.

They have to be off the street.

An 8:00 curfew.

We gave them until 9:00.

This area has been hurt enough, there's businesses here are suffering, the residents here have suffered, we've taken 60 arrests for violating the curfew, we're just not gonna take it.

>> In New York City there was like all of these coordinated protests and my daughter wanted to go.

And she was going to go with her friends.

And I was like, "Absolutely not!"

That is like Ray Charles leading Stevie Wonder.

I was like, "Girl, no."

Like because the police had already been bugging, right?

A curfew had kicked in.

I was not gonna allow my 17-year-old daughter to go out there by herself.

And so I went with her and we got our asses kicked!

Police have us surrounded right now.

Police got us trapped.

And we ain't do nothing wrong.

At about 7:45, they intentionally started cornering us, they have us pushed in, in a pin.

We peaceful protesting.

They are pushing us!

They are pushing us.

Stay tight, stay tight.

>> Oh my God!

Oh my God!

(screaming, shouting) >> Let me through with my daughter!

Let me through with my daughter!

Let me through with my daughter!

Let me through with my daughter!

Taylor!

I got pepper sprayed.

I got straight pepper sprayed.

My daughter got pepper sprayed, Y'all, I done peed on myself.

Do you understand how terrifying it is?

Like yo!

>> Look at that bus!

Half those people are teenagers.

We were doing nothing.

>> Taylor, you got to calm down, mama.

(Taylor sobbing) You got to calm down, mama.

You got to calm down, mama, it's all right.

They're not letting us go that way.

Here they go, here they go.

They're coming.

Look, look, look!

Go, go, go, go!

Go!

Go!

Go, go, go!

Go this way.

Let's go, let's go, let's go!

>> Look at... Look, did you guys see that?

Did you guys see that?

>> Taylor, you gotta calm down.

You cannot bring attention to yourself.

Now we over here by ourselves.

You gotta shut up.

This is terrifying.

Here, baby drink that water.

Drink that water.

It's terrifying You are able-bodied, armed white people in front of courthouses, threatening law enforcement for their right to be able to get a haircut.

The same people that they wanted a haircut from were now in the street, unarmed, asking, demanding that cops and white folks stop killing them.

Do you see how different it is to be white and Black in this country?

♪ ♪ >> MANSOUR: My name is Carol Mansour.

I'm a filmmaker.

I like to document anything that's happening around me.

Not only empty streets, but interactions and things happening.

(in Arabic): >> Hey.

>> Hey.

Whoo-hoo!

It's important to document.

It's important to know what we went through, what you know, people went through.

>> GIRL (in Arabic): >> MANSOUR: ♪ ♪ In Lebanon we were at a state where, pandemic or not, it was (bleep).

(crowd chatter) Before COVID, the country was falling apart.

(crowd shouting) >> You see the corruption, you know about it, and... it just drives you mad, you know?

(crowd chanting) >> The protestors are angry.

They see hard lives stretching before them, while political elites keep the power and the money.

>> The pandemic accelerated the country going downfall.

>> There are financial crises now all over the world.

Jobs gone, livelihoods lost.

But here, in Lebanon, it is on a different level.

>> We have shortage of electricity, we have shortage of water, you know, everything, everything-- we have absolutely nothing.

Nobody gives a (bleep) about us.

About the people.

And then, to top it all, you know, up we had this explosion on the fourth of August, so.

♪ ♪ (wind howling) (loud explosion) (screaming, glass shattering) (screaming, shouting) >> Babe?!

>> I'm good, I'm good.

>> Come!

What is it?

>> I'm here!

(shouting) (sirens blaring) (shouting) (sirens blaring continues) (shouting) ♪ ♪ >> The government says the blast was caused by 2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate stored unsafely in a warehouse at the port.

>> The governor of the city estimates that 300,000 people have been left without a place to live.

♪ ♪ >> WOMAN: ♪ ♪ >> MANSOUR: >> MANSOUR: ♪ ♪ >> MANSOUR: Right now, honestly, when you walk on the streets here, you don't feel that there is a pandemic.

Because people are so worried about so many other things.

Eating, getting money, living, sleeping.

So COVID is in the back of their minds.

COVID is almost inexistent.

(hammering nearby) ♪ ♪ >> VASILIEV: ♪ ♪ >> WOMAN: >> WOMAN: >> WOMAN: >> VASILIEV: >> WOMAN: >> VASILIEV: (indistinct chatter) (orchestra tuning up) >> WOMAN: >> WOMAN: >> Ladies and gentlemen, the performance will start in two minutes.

Please wear a mask in the theater.

Thank you.

(clapping to the beat) ♪ ♪ >> VASILIEV: ♪ ♪ >> We cannot continue to exist in the way that we have.

But I do believe that it's going to get better.

I do believe that at least for my grandchildren that we are going to get through whatever the muck, and the mire, and the foolishness is so that my little grandbabies-- whether I'm here to see it or not-- are gonna be better off than I was in this lifetime.

♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> We are all in this together.

♪ ♪ >> (speaking Portugese): >> (speaking Hindi): >> (cheers) >> If this election doesn't go my way then I'm going to spend time behind bars.

>> NARRATOR: The conclusion of The Virus That Shook The World.

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