Steven Li, a Toronto man living in Wuhan, took a short bike ride to get groceries. Here is what he saw.
Steven Li had spent 11 days holed up in his apartment in Wuhan, the Chinese city at the epicentre of the ongoing coronavirus outbreak.
So on Sunday, he decided to take a short bike ride to pick up groceries.
“I just wanted some chocolate, to be honest,” Li told CBC Radio’s Metro Morning today.
The experience was like being in a movie about the apocalypse, he explained.
“I saw probably 20 people,” he said from the city of 11 million. “I saw maybe three, four cars.”
Watch: Take a trip through the streets of Wuhan during the city-wide quarantine:
A Canadian teaching in Wuhan takes to the streets on his bike and comments on what he sees. 1:45
The video shows Li, who is from Toronto but currently teaching in Wuhan, cycling through the eerily quiet streets.
“It feels good to be outside,” he can be heard saying. “There’s not a lot of people. It’s kind of scary, though.”
Every now and again, there are signs of city life. Li encounters a woman skipping rope, and o