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Snapshots of life in quarantine
4月27日,妻子正陪着孩子通过数字电视平台进行在线学习_105926.jpg 4月28日,妻子为女儿做新冠病毒抗原自主检测_105931.jpg 4月28日,女儿和儿子做的新冠病毒抗原自主检测结果均显示阴性_105930.jpg 4月27日早上,收到居家隔离通知后通过电商平台购买的食品物资_105928.jpg 4月29日,妻子正在跟着这轮疫情突然走红的短视频博主刘畊宏跳_105932.jpg
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  • Wei Yao's wife Hu Yue supervises the children as they follow their online classes on April 27
  • Hu conducts an antigen test on her daughter on April 28
  • Results on April 28 show Wei's twins are both tested negative
  • Groceries, ordered online, arrive within two hours on April 27
  • Mimicking a fitness influencer's every move, Hu gets in some aerobics on April 30
  • 4月27日,妻子正陪着孩子通过数字电视平台进行在线学习_105926.jpg
  • 4月28日,妻子为女儿做新冠病毒抗原自主检测_105931.jpg
  • 4月28日,女儿和儿子做的新冠病毒抗原自主检测结果均显示阴性_105930.jpg
  • 4月27日早上,收到居家隔离通知后通过电商平台购买的食品物资_105928.jpg
  • 4月29日,妻子正在跟着这轮疫情突然走红的短视频博主刘畊宏跳_105932.jpg

I was preparing breakfast for my children on April 27 when a message popped up on WeChat, a Chinese super-app, stating that our compound would be locked down—effective immediately. One of our neighbors turned out to be a close contact of someone who'd tested positive for COVID-19. Two days later, the situation got worse as we were informed we'd have to stay indoors, i.e., inside our apartment. Compound management would be overseeing food delivery and garbage collection.

Fortunately, my wife and I can easily work from home while the children can follow their classes online. Their study schedule was in perfect order and fleshed out with some simple physical exercise like aerobics and rope skipping.

Aside from organizing rounds of door-to-door nucleic acid testing, management also sent us COVID-19 antigen home test kits which soon became our children's new form of "entertainment." By May 1, all residents had tested negative and life got back to normal. 

(Text and photos by Wei Yao)

Copyedited by Elsbeth van Paridon

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