Discovery Plus brings India COVID-19 special documentary

Discovery Communications has launched a documentary Pandemic: COVID-19, a one hour special which gives an in-depth look at the COVID-19 pandemic that went sweeping the globe on April 15 at 10 PM on Discovery, Discovery HD and recently launched streaming service Discovery Plus.

The film produced by ITN Productions, for a science channel, talks about the rapid spread of COVID-19, a novel form of coronavirus, which has become the defining global health crisis of our time. Seemingly overnight, the virus has changed our daily lives and the way we interact within our very own communities. But how did we get here? And what insight can we learn from scientists and experts?

Experts will shed light on its treatment and transmission, which initially baffled doctors and scientists who first encountered early patients who fell ill. The special will also look at how within a matter of weeks, COVID-19 spread throughout China and beyond, alarming healthcare professionals and scientists.

Pandemic: COVID-19 will take viewers inside the fight to contain the pandemic with the latest news on how the government is coordinating to test and treat patients, and to prevent further spread. Experts will reveal why COVID-19 is unique, why the world was so unprepared for it and what could have been done differently to contain its spread.

Viewers get a chance to hear from the leading experts in medicine on the frontlines as well as academia, government officials and patients with first-hand accounts.