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Woman Stuck At Blind Date’s House After Swift COVID Lockdown In China
A woman in Zhengzhou went viral last week when she posted videos on the Chinese social media platform WeChat about how she uninten- tionally got stuck at her blind date’s house during a very sudden lock- down, the Shanghai-based outlet The Paper reported, accord- ing to Agence France-Presse.
The woman, iden- tified only by her last name, Wang, explained in a social media post that she had recently traveled to Zhengzhou ahead of the Lunar New Year, the BBC reports.
“I’m getting old now, my family introduced me to ten matches,” Wang told local media, per AFP. “The fifth date wanted to show off his cooking skills and invited me over to his house for dinner.”
Unfortunately, during the meal,
she discovered that her date’s community had gone into very sudden and swift quarantine due to a surge of COVID-19 cases. She told local out- lets Sunday that she had been stuck at her date’s house for four days, accord- ing to the BBC.
And for those who are wondering if this unique situa- tion has blos- somed into a meet-cute, let’s just say you may want to check out a Hallmark movie to get that fix.
One of
Wang’s videos m ade its way to Douyin (China’s domestic version of TikTok), where she expressed her true feelings about the situa- tion.
“Because we don’t know each other very well, it was not so con- venient for me to live at his home. I felt a bit embar- rassed,” she says in the video, according to a HuffPost transla- tion.
She also gave more details about her,
uh, chemistry with her date to The
Paper, per AFP.
“Besides the fact that he’s as mute as a wooden mannequin, everything else (about him) is pretty good,” Wang said before adding: “Despite his food being mediocre, he’s still willing to cook, which I think is great.”
China has a zero COVID-19 policy, meaning that prompt lockdowns are routinely imposed in com- munities when cases of the virus are detected. In late December, the country
placed 13 million residents of the northern city of Xi’an in lockdown following a wave of coronavirus cases.
In the past week, more than 150 cases have been reported in Zhengzhou,
the Global
Times newspaper reports. Aside from the very rapid lockdown that Wang experi- enced, the city also tested 12.6 million residents in six hours in an attempt to curb the spread of the virus.
It’s unclear if
Wang is still stuck on what might be the longest and most awkward first date of her life, because she has since removed most of her posts about it from social media.
Wang explained in a video online that she removed her posts about her never-ending date because they received too much attention from the media, causing friends and others to reach out to her date — “and I think this has defi- nitely affected his life,” she said, per AFP.
As for Wang, however, it seems like she may have enjoyed the social media response.
“Thanks everyone for your atten- tion,” she said online, per AFP. “I hope the outbreak ends soon and that my single sis- ters also find a relationship soon.”
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