This woman went on a blind date and was trapped in the man's house when a quarantine was suddenly decreed by COVID-19

By Rhoda KwanNBC

It's the stuff nightmares are made of: an awkward blind date that just never ends.

For a Chinese woman it came true last Friday, she said, when she was trapped in the apartment of the man she had just met after the city of Zhengzhou was quarantined unexpectedly due to the increase in COVID-19 cases. .

Chinese authorities thus responded to an outbreak of the delta variant in the capital of Henan province, where dozens of cases were reported last week.

The woman has told her experience through the social networks of her country.Douyin.com

Three days after being trapped, the woman shared videos of her lockdown routine on Chinese social media Weibo and Douyin, and her story went viral.

In one of the videos seen by NBC News, the woman said that she had traveled from the city of Guangzhou to Zhengzhou, where her family had arranged a series of blind dates for her.

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"I'm getting older, my family introduced me to more than 10 blind dates," he said.

His new lock-in partner was his fifth date.

Although he did not reveal his name, his age, or the identity of his date, he identified himself as Wang in interviews with local media outlets.

His Douyin name is “Wang Yi in Guangzhou”.

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Wang agreed to meet at the man's home on Friday so he could "show off his cooking skills," he told The Paper, a Shanghai-based online newspaper, on Monday.

His host had been very kind, he said, and although he had barely spoken, "everything else was great."

“Cook, clean and work,” he said.

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Although she was grateful to "everyone for their concern, adding:" I'm going to hold on.

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In a subsequent social media post, Wang said he had temporarily removed some of the videos because they had gone viral and he thought they had affected the man's life.

It is not clear if Wang is still in the apartment.

NBC News has contacted her for her comments.

COVID-19 cases in Henan have continued to rise, with the province reporting 76 new local infections on Thursday.

Wang's situation highlights the sudden upheavals in daily life in China, as authorities doggedly pursue a "zero COVID" policy.

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Authorities have locked down some 20 million people in their homes in three cities in a bid to stamp out outbreaks of the delta and omicron variants ahead of the Beijing Winter Olympics, which start early next month.

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Some 13 million residents in the city of Xi'an entered their third week of strict lockdown on Tuesday, with netizen reports suggesting difficulties in accessing food supplies and medical aid.