WUHAN – After two months in locked-down Wuhan, Wei Lei was eager to get back to work on a railway construction site.
Instead, the 22-year-old found himself stranded at an expressway toll plaza where police decided who was allowed in and out of the city where the coronavirus pandemic started.
The authorities wanted a letter from his bosses saying he was needed, but Wei said he didn't have one because employees who would prepare it had yet to return to work. "It was boring staying at home and I was embarrassed to be fed by my parents,” Wei said Thursday.
Chinese leaders are trying to revive the economy, but local officials under orders to prevent new infections are enforcing disease checks and other controls that add to financial losses and