From filmmaker to medicine courier: volunteers helped Wuhan's virus fight

Volunteer Lin Wenhua, 38, gives an interview with Reuters in Wuhan, Hubei province, the epicentre of China's coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, April 5, 2020. Picture taken April 5, 2020. REUTERS/Aly Song

WUHAN, China (Reuters) - While most people in the Chinese city of Wuhan were hunkered down in their homes at the height of the country's coronavirus outbreak, Lin Wenhua was out on the empty streets in his car, driving toward the next person or task on his list.

Sometimes it would be a request to take a doctor to the hospital, the 38-year-old filmmaker recalled. Once, he was asked to help drive a pet-sitter to a friend's house.