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Frederick Lim
Where did I get the idea for my novel, The Pandemic Files? Well, I was in China and not far from Wuhan about a month before reports surfaced of the outbreak of cases of severe pneumonia with an unknown cause in the city. The World Health Organisation was only informed of it in end-December 2019. And China only identified the cause of the outbreak as a novel coronavirus on January 7, 2020. We now know it was the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. When I heard of it I wondered to myself what would I do as a journalist if I was stuck in Wuhan and had to do news coverage of the pandemic. That's how the germ of an idea started in my head - which soon became the novel, The Pandemic files.
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