Stuck at a hot pot restaurant because of the blockade, 40 guests can eat for free in China

On the night of March 18, a hot pot restaurant in Zhengzhou city (Henan province, China) was suddenly blocked due to the appearance of a positive case. Page Ettoday reported that 40 diners and more than 10 employees of the restaurant were trapped.

Ms. Wang, a customer stuck in a hot pot restaurant, shared a bittersweet story about how she and others had been able to eat hotpot for free for the past three days.

“I really can’t eat hot pot anymore,” Wang humorously expressed in the clip posted online.

Ms. Wang and the customers stuck at the restaurant get to eat hot pot for free.

Wang said she and her friends went to a hot pot restaurant after work. After eating, 3 friends left first, she sat down to talk with a friend she hadn’t seen for a long time.

But just as she was about to get up and go home, she and the guests in the restaurant were asked by the authorities to “stay in place”, temporarily isolated at the restaurant because an F0 had come to eat here.

After the sudden blockade order, the owner invited 40 stranded guests to eat free hot pot, unlimited choice of dishes. During the 3-day blockade, breakfast – lunch – dinner here are all hot pot dishes, carefully and thoughtfully prepared by the staff.

“Although this is an unexpected situation that no one wants, the experience this time is quite comfortable and enjoyable,” Wang said.

Under Wang’s videos, Chinese netizens also shared unexpected situations of being stuck due to the government’s quarantine blockade order.

One person said that the office building in Shanghai where he worked was blocked due to an infection. The process of isolation in place has caused a series of unexpected troubles. “This kind of isolation is really too much,” this person said.

The woman, surnamed Zhang, said a colleague of hers, a mini-market clerk, had been quarantined for nine days at the store. Because the apartment complex where the woman works was blocked due to an infection, she was not allowed to leave.

Many localities in China were locked down during the resurgence of the Covid-19 epidemic wave.

In recent weeks, China has recorded a high number of Covid-19 cases across the country, only Ningxia, Tibet and Xinjiang have not witnessed the latest outbreak.

On March 17, President Xi Jinping said during a meeting on anti-epidemic that China will continue to apply the “Zero-Covid-19” policy, and ordered the local government to stamp out the transmission line. as soon as possible.

He also said local officials would be held accountable if they failed to get outbreaks under control in time.

Nicholas Thomas, an associate professor at City University of Hong Kong, said Omicron “has the potential to cause China a few difficult months”.

Associate Professor Thomas said the Zero Covid-19 strategy gave China time to vaccinate its population, but now it needs to change its response to the disease.

According to Zing