An Indian vlogger was flooded by blessings from Chinese netizens after he was infected with the COVID-19 virus and shared his story on China’s video-sharing site Bilibili.
The man, registered as “Indian Buddy Changjiang” on the site, used to study in China as an overseas student and has been an active vlogger. He currently lives in India, where there has been an ongoing second wave of infections.
To tell Chinese people what is going on in India, Changjiang filmed videos to record the real situation around him and posted them to Bilibili, with the aim of narrowing the information gap between Chinese and Indian people.
Unfortunately, Changjiang was infected with the COVID-19 virus after showing symptoms of fever and weakness beginning on April 25, 2021. He filmed a video in Chinese that recorded the process from emerging symptoms to the confirmed positive test result and posted the video online on April 27.
The eight-minute long video also tells how Changjiang coped with the infection positively, including voluntarily quarantining himself at home.
The video has gained more than 1 million views and 480,000 likes from Chinese users whose hearts go out to Changjiang.
Blessing bullet comments (a commentary system allowing users to leave synchronized messages that scroll directly over video) of “recover soon” by Chinese netizens occupy almost the whole screen.
Many of his followers leave messages to share their own or family members’ experience on how to fight the virus, trying to help Changjiang to recover quickly.
A vlogger from Wuhan, the once epidemic epicenter of China, encouraged Changjiang by saying, “you are young, which is your advantage to help you make it through the infection. We are waiting for your comeback.”
India's COVID-19 tally reached 19,164,969 on Saturday, with a single-day spike of 401,993 cases, the health ministry said.
According to the Xinhua report, this is the first time when over 400,000 new cases were recorded in India in 24 hours. As many as 3,523 deaths since Friday morning took the total death toll to 211,853.
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