Locked-in residents adapt for food
Unable to step out, citizens depend on online buying services
Beijing, Feb. 24: The lockdown of Guo Jing’s neighbourhood in Wuhan — the city at the heart of China’s new Covid-19 epidemic — came suddenly and without warning. Unable to go out, the 29year-old is now sealed inside her compound where she has to depend on online group-buying services to get food.
“Living for at least another month isn’t an issue,” Guo said, explaining that she had her own stash of pickled vegetables and salted eggs. But what scares her most is the lack of control — first, the entire city was sealed off, and then residents were limited to exiting their compound once every three days. Now even that has been taken away. Guo is among some 11 million residents in Wuhan, a city in central Hubei province that has been under effective quarantine since January 23 as Chinese authorities race to contain the virus. Since then, its people have faced a number of tightening controls over daily life.
SINCE THE January 23 quarantine, people in Wuhan are facing a number of tightening controls over daily life