‘Give Me an Opportunity to Live:’ Chinese Writer Pleads for Permission to Shop for Medicines and Food

Medical workers in Fuzhou, in southeast China's Fujian province, give thumbs-up to colleagues leaving to help with an outbreak of COVID-19, on Sunday, Sept. 12, 2021. Chinatopix via AP

China continues to implement stringent zero-COVID measures, disrupting everyday life for Chinese citizens at a time when most other countries in the world are learning to live with the virus.

A 62-year-old Chinese writer and activist, who depends on medicines for kidney disease, has run out of both medicines and food. Trapped at home under COVID isolation measures, she posted an SOS letter online, pleading for permission to leave her residence to shop for food and medicines.