
China: Residents stock up on groceries amid lockdown in Shijiazhuang
People waited in line to pick up grocery supplies in Shijiazhuang, on Thursday, as residential communities remain under a lockdown imposed on January 7 with the aim of isolating a new coronavirus outbreak.
Residents were seen collecting pre-ordered food from across a fence at a market in the compound of Chang'an District, Thursday.
Volunteers in the compound checked food orders as residents from compounds with no coronavirus cases collected their goods from a gated entrance.
Shijiazhuang, the capital and largest city of northern China's Hebei Province, with a population of 11 million, has become a coronavirus hotspot, after confirming 84 out of the 90 new coronavirus cases in Hebei province on Tuesday, reports said.

People waited in line to pick up grocery supplies in Shijiazhuang, on Thursday, as residential communities remain under a lockdown imposed on January 7 with the aim of isolating a new coronavirus outbreak.
Residents were seen collecting pre-ordered food from across a fence at a market in the compound of Chang'an District, Thursday.
Volunteers in the compound checked food orders as residents from compounds with no coronavirus cases collected their goods from a gated entrance.
Shijiazhuang, the capital and largest city of northern China's Hebei Province, with a population of 11 million, has become a coronavirus hotspot, after confirming 84 out of the 90 new coronavirus cases in Hebei province on Tuesday, reports said.