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Life Under Lockdown in Wuhan, China

Professional photographer Daniel Xie documented the eerie desolation of the quarantined city.

Life Under Lockdown in Wuhan, China
A pedestrian tunnel in Wuhan’s Wuchang District on Jan. 29. PHOTOGRAPHER: DANIEL XIE
(Bloomberg Businessweek) -- Wuhan resident Daniel Xie had been preparing to leave town to visit relatives for the Lunar New Year holiday when authorities locked down the city on Jan. 23 in an attempt to contain the spread of the new coronavirus. Since then, the 33-year-old professional cameraman has been documenting life at the epicenter of the outbreak. “I witnessed a city of 11 million turn into a ghost town,” he says. “I wanted to...
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