In a residential community in Wuhan, each building has been under lockdown for more than 20 days. Residents in these high-rise buildings can only go downstairs to pick up deliveries of food and other necessities. A woman in this community lamented that there were two more confirmed cases of infection despite the strict lockdown measures.
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Woman: It’s 12 noon on March 14. There are not many cars on the street. The most annoying news I just heard is although every building in our community has been under lockdown for over 20 days, there are still new infections. I literally had a headache upon hearing the news, and I did not sleep well last night. What shall we do? The whole city of Wuhan reported four new infections today, two of them are from our community. In addition, there are six more suspected coronavirus patients in our community. Tell me, what’s to be done? With the current restrictions, it’s already very difficult for us to go downstairs. I don’t know how much longer we have to stay indoors. We have stayed at home for two months. I guess our community will be the last one in Wuhan to…
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This woman doesn’t have access to information about other communities. When she heard there were two new infections among her neighbors, and Wuhan authorities reported four new cases that day, she thought her neighborhood is experiencing the worst situation in the whole city.