"I'm getting old now, my family introduced me to 10 matches," she said in a video on social media. "The fifth date wanted to show off his cooking skills and invited me over to his house for dinner." Just when Wang was about to go home after the meal, she found out the whole neighborhood had gone into a swift lockdown, she said.
China regularly seals off communities after Covid infections are detected among residents. These sudden lockdowns -- along with mass testing and extensive quarantine -- are part of the country's stringent zero-Covid strategy to quickly stamp out local outbreaks. Unable to leave, Wang was stuck at her date's house for days. She posted videos of her unexpected co-living experience on social media, showing her date cooking meals for her, sweeping the floor and working on his laptop. The videos quickly went viral, with Wang's encounter becoming a top trending topic on Weibo, China's Twitter-like platform.
