Closed off: A woman trying to buy food from a vendor behind barricades of a sealed-off area, during lockdown amid the Covid-19 pandemic in Shanghai. — Reuters
BEIJING: As Shanghai, a megalopolis with a population of 25 million, remains under lockdown to combat a fierce outbreak of Covid-19, many senior residents living alone have proven to be the most vulnerable group.
With their normal lives disrupted by the epidemic, the seniors are encountering various difficulties: some find it hard to access daily necessities via online shopping as they don’t know how to use smart phones; some are seeing their medicines run out; and some are gripped by fears due to poor knowledge of the situation of outbreak.
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