China continues to implement stringent zero-COVID measures, disrupting everyday life for Chinese citizens at a time when most other countries in the world are learning to live with the virus.
A 62-year-old Chinese writer and activist, who depends on medicines for kidney disease, has run out of both medicines and food. Trapped at home under COVID isolation measures, she posted an SOS letter online, pleading for permission to leave her residence to shop for food and medicines.
Fan Yanqiong lives alone in the Cangshan District of Fuzhou, the capital of China’s southeastern Fujian Province. On Oct. 28, Fuzhou authorities imposed an overall lockdown on the city, ordering its officials to “knock on every door” to make sure that all the residents take PCR tests, according to state-run media Fuzhou News….