Video games, hand puppets and playing dress-up: how people are coping in China's locked-down cities
BEIJING—Cai Xu has been outside once in seven days. Twice, if you count taking out the trash.
Any other year around this time, the 31-year-old manager at an internet company would be 900 miles south in the countryside, playing mahjong with his extended family for the Lunar New Year holiday. Instead, he is sequestered in his Beijing apartment, unable to do much except try—unsuccessfully, so far—to notch a new personal high score in Arena of Valor, a mobile combat game.
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