Covid-19: Chinese woman stuck in lockdown with blind date
A swift lockdown in China’s Zhengzhou means a woman is stuck at her date’s house.
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(Ms. Wang) said that she had recently returned to the city of Zhengzhou from Guangzhou ahead of the Lunar New Year.
"I'm getting quite old, so my parents arranged more than 10 blind dates for me," she said in this post. She wrote that her fifth date had said "he was good at cooking, and invited me to his house so he could cook a meal".
However, during the meal, she discovered that her date's community had gone into swift lockdown due to cases of Covid-19, and ended up being unable to leave his house for several days.
Ms Wang told media on Sunday that she had been stuck for four days at her date's house, and that the situation was "not ideal".
However, she said that her date had cooked every day for her while they were stranded together.
She added though that "he doesn't speak much".
It is unclear whether she still remains stuck at her date's house. However, cases of Covid-19 have persisted in Zhengzhou in recent days.
There have been more than 100 cases of Covid-19 in Zhengzhou over the past week, the Global Times newspaper reports.
Non-essential businesses were ordered to close on Tuesday in the city, and there have been large-scale Covid-19 testing drives rolled out to test the city's 12.6 million residents for any "silent" Covid-19 carriers.
It's a short article so I quoted most of it. Would be a total nightmare for me, whether I'm the guest or the host.
In other English-language coverage, from The Guardian, they translated some of her comments to a Shanghai-based newspaper:
"Besides the fact he's as mute as a wooden mannequin, everything else [about him] is pretty good," Wang told the Paper on Tuesday. "Despite his food being mediocre, he's still willing to cook, which I think is great."
Although Wang did not seem to complain about the experience, the prolonged lockdown has not caused romance to bloom.