unrelated surgery. there's unequality in death. few er than 5,000 loss to covid. but across town, the government's bigger narrative is that china won and made no mistakes. this massive exhibition now praises president xi jinping. this is wuhan now on the first anniversary of the lock down. it's jarringly normal with people out and about, different from the reality in the united states and from any countries around the the world. chinese officials say that the coronavirus might have come are from someplace else. >> you out. >> reporter: they landed last week to find covid's origin. what's the probability that covid originated here in china? >> it's unclear if china, the

country, is the original source of the virus. the evidence right now suggests a high probability that the whe this started.sts you know in pats. >> reporter: he said that his father's ashes will stay where they are. until the communist party apologizes. letting people know what happened is beneficial for our people and country. few will speak the truth. wuhan. >> when the coronavirus outbreak took hold in wuhan last year, residents were forced to stay in their homes under penalty of arrest for almost 11 weeks. a new documentary takes us behind the early days and we have the story. >> from its very first moments. 76 days is emotionally explicit.

>> a nurse in a wuhan hospital begs to see her dead father's body. her colleagues won't let her for fear of contagion the director lets the ordeal play out for more than three minutes. why did you let it linger to long? >> it was a creative choice to do let the audience experience and feel and hear what was happening inside the hospitals. to let them be emotionally shaken and also moved. >> reporter: how did you get in there? how did you get the footage? >> in the beginning of the lockdown, there was absolute chaos in the hospitals and as long as a hospital chief granted

permission to any reporter, he or she had could roam free inside the hospital. >> he lives in new york city, but last february, he partnered with two chinese journalists embedded in wuhan hospitals. each night, they up loaded video for him to edit. >> it was really strange receiving footage out of wuhan in new york. at that time, you know, people still could go out to eat, go to restaurants. i was still meeting up with friends. and every night after coming home, i would start reviewing the video and witnessing how horrible it was in wuhan. >> known inno one in the world footage like this at that point. >> that's correct. >> mostly what we knew came from

video on like these, orderly hospitals can dancing patients. this is what 76 days captures. desperate people. battling for hospital beds. these were of course the very first doctors and nurses in the world to try to treat covid. and in 76 days, it portrays them as heroes, discovering and navigating the cruelty of the new virus. >> that image of the male nurse trying to comfort an old scare grandma, who was dying alone by herself. that was really powerful to me. >> reporter: but for a time, wu feared none of this the -- this

footage would be publicly seen. as the virus spread, and the government locked down coverage of onse, his partners stepped away from the project. >> i was just not sure i would be able to continue to make a film. >> reporter: whether they would let you use the footage? >> yes that, is right. >> they had good reason to worry. >> a citizen journalist who exposed bad conditions has since been sentenced to four years in prison. so, some viewers may be skeptical of wu's motivation for removing whistleblower interviews from early cuts of the film, in avoiding political discussions in it entirely. knowing you needed to get your co-collaborators to agree to whatever you made, is it not fair to describe it as a porm of self censorship, the decision

you made what to show and not show? >> not really, we shot two whistle blower, it did not joiv well with the other footage. >> reporter: the power comes in tiny details like this plastic crate at the nurse's station. filled with orphaned items. >> that box was phones, left over by the dead, that was, that phone is still ringing. >> 31 messages unread. absolutely. >> and you have to think what the messages are. >> it gave me in chills now when you think of that image. >> against government regulaase the items andhe lockdowninalended, cled what wa.

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the coronavirus pandemic has pulled the plug on most live purchase answers and some are even scared to sing in church for fear of spreading the virus. this groups that found a work around. >> reporter: the pandemic has taken singing in the car to a new frequency. ♪ ♪ >> sgloo >>. >> reporter: using car radios, and tech savvy, the choir found

a way to sing together. tim is artistic director. >> to make it happen and have people sing together, it really helps the soul. let's be honest the performing arts is if in a crisis. >> with a simple fm transmitter the sound from each microphone is merged and returned on a radio frequency t idea came from south of the border in virginia. where a baratone david newman tried it last spring. and word spread across the continent. when you are on the zoom call and you sing happy birthday is no one is in sync, this has found a way to fix that, right? >> yeah, and it's just the fm small which is not going to outer space and coming back.

>> reporter: meaning there's no delay. that's music to the ears of kaleb nelson who led the technical effort. >> suddenly everyone was in my car with me. it's happening in real time, we are making music and singing chor d chords. >> making jokes, jokes don't work over zoom as well. >> what does it mean to you, to keep singing in a group? >> what does it mean to breathe? it's kind of the same thing. >> something their audience needed to. >> to hear 200 car horns going, that was awesome! it's amazing! >> and that's the overnight news you the news continues for others check back later for cbs this morning and follow us online all the time at news.com. reporting from the nation's

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