After the sudden lockdown of Tonghua city in China’s northeastern Jilin Province, food supplies have become a major problem for its 2.3 million residents. Due to the local government’s extreme COVID-19 lockdown measures, many residents confined to their homes are running out of food. Currently, all the food supplies are distributed and delivered to households by community volunteers. The Epoch Times spoke with some of these volunteers who revealed what the situation was like inside the locked-down city.
Tonghua has already tested all residents for COVID-19 three times so far, but many are still required to stay inside their homes, state-run media Xinhua reported on Jan. 27.
One resident told the Chinese-language Epoch Times that local authorities in Dongchang district in Tonghua began to seal off her community on Jan. 15, nearly a week before the official citywide announcement.
A college student surnamed Gao (alias) told this publication that after returning home to Tonghua for the Chinese New Year holiday, he has been doing volunteer work for almost a week. Gao revealed that after the third round of COVID-19 mass testing, residents are still stuck at home, and some with their doors sealed shut. When he and other volunteers dropped off food supplies, they first needed to remove the seals from the doors so that the residents could open their doors to take the food in. Then the volunteers would re-seal the doors before leaving the premises.
A volunteer surnamed Lin (alias), who sorts vegetables for delivery, said in an interview that people are “not allowed to go downstairs or go out” of their building, and their food is delivered by the community or neighborhood volunteers.
The Epoch Times obtained a video showing Tonghua city under complete lockdown.
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