Chen Qiushi, a resident columnist who had been doing primary reporting from Wuhan, the main Chinese city at the focal point of the outbreak, has now out of nowhere vanished.

Chen, who has in excess of 200,000 followers on Twitter and in excess of 400,000 subscribers of his YouTube channel, had been posting regular updates from Wuhan.

In any case, since February 6, loved ones of Qiushi has not been able to break through to him.

As indicated by a Guardian report, Chen’s vanishing comes as the Chinese government battles to contain public resentment regarding its treatment of the infection.

“I am Chen Qiushi’s mom. Please, online friends and particularly those in Wuhan if it’s not too much trouble, help me and discover Chen Qiushi and discover what happened to him,” she said in a video posted on Chen’s Twitter page.

Chen, in the course of recent weeks, gave individuals a look into exactly how critical things have been. A considerable lot of those recordings have been presented on Twitter and reposted on YouTube.

In his recordings, he appeared to just have fundamental protection of goggles and a face cover, dissimilar to journalists from the state media systems.

In a video posted on January 30, Chen portrayed visiting clinics loaded with sick patients, the majority of them on oxygen tanks, and a large number of them laying in the passage.

“I’m frightened, I have the infection before me and behind me China’s law authorities,” Chen said in an emotional video recorded in his lodging on January 30.

In that video, Chen additionally talked about the eight “rumormongers” who were rebuffed by Wuhan police for spreading bogus data about the flare-up.

Chen, who was recently restricted for posting recordings from the protests in Hong Kong, showed up in Wuhan on January 24, a day after the city was put under a state-forced lockdown,

As indicated by CNN, his companions state Chen had left them his login details to the platform, in the event that he was taken by the authorities.

One companion, Xu XiaoDong, posted a video alleging Qiushi was taken forcibly by Chinese authorities, and the mobile phone he used to communicate his messages was confiscated. Xiaodong said authorities revealed to Quishi’s parents that he was being isolated in light of the fact that he had been exposed to the infection.