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SMITHSONIAN CHANNEL™ REVEALS INTIMATE STORIES OF LIFE NEAR EPICENTER OF CORONAVIRUS CRISIS WITH "COVID: OUR LOCKDOWN IN SHANGHAI"

DOCUMENTARY SPECIAL FOLLOWS RESIDENTS IN ONE BUILDING LIVING UNDER EXTRAORDINARY CIRCUMSTANCES, PREMIERING MAY 25   NEW YORK – May 15, 2020 – In January 2020, a deadly new coronavirus was spreading quickly through central China. Soon British advertising creative and filmmaker, Yu Kung and his wife, Crystal Liu, found themselves losing their income and locked down in their apartment block in Shanghai. They decided to use their skills to capture the impact of the epidemic and sudden confinement on the lives of their neighbors. The powerful and moving one-hour documentary COVID: OUR LOCKDOWN...