Outbreak: The Virus That Shook the World
The story is the most extraordinary of our age. A virus that, just six months after being discovered, has touched almost every country in the world – infecting over 7 million people, killing more than 400,000, bringing global markets to a virtual standstill, plunging the world’s economy into recession and threatening to change our way of life. This fast-paced, investigative feature documentary will tell the dramatic story of how this once-in-a-century pandemic spread, told through the words and images of those who were there and were most affected – tracing its origins and journey from Wuhan in China to our doorstep in the UK and beyond.
