[Coronavirus Archive 03/05/2020] (French) Ground report from French man living in Beijing

https://www.arte.tv/fr/videos/095527-000-A/pekin-journal-d-une-quarantaine/

Faced with the coronavirus, China has taken a radical decision: to quarantine the country. The entire security apparatus of the communist regime has been reconverted into an apparatus of health and social control, thanks to a mass of zealous agents. Since the Maoist revolution, Party agents in each district, each street, each residence, each company have had the task of observing, controlling, reporting, informing. They are now responsible for barricading. To invent more stringent rules every day to force everyone to stand still. Sébastien Le Belzic, a journalist based in Beijing for 15 years, found himself confined to his building with his family. The only way to escape? Through screens, social networks, where the reporter manages to converse with a few brave bloggers who are trying to inform the Chinese. But these see more and more silenced. Because there is a virus that the Party fears more than all the others: that of freedom.