by Eva Fu
After four days of trying to order food online to no avail, a man of around 30 from Shanghai’s Yangpu district called the police. The sealed-in resident wanted to know if he would get fed if he charged out of his residential compound and got arrested for breaking quarantine rules.
His food purchase placed through the local neighborhood committee six days earlier never arrived, and the hunger was giving him stomach cramps, he said.
“The neighborhood committee told me to ‘endure,’ I have endured four days. All that’s edible is gone except for water,” he told the police in a call, the recording of which he later posted online.