Man Films Dead Bodies in Chinese Hospital, Then Finds Police at His Door

Lab technicians register samples from potential victims of the Novel Coronavirus at the Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases of Thailand at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok on Feb. 5, 2020. Lillian Suwanrumpha/AFP via Getty Images

If Fang Bin, a self-described citizen journalist from the virus-stricken Chinese city of Wuhan, expected police to track him down, he didn’t expect it would happen so fast.

For days on end, he had been driving around the town, documenting every step of the way with his phone to show the life in a now locked-down city.