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Young Voices
The covid-19 outbreak: a Chinese school student’s life in isolation for 73 days
  1. Surong Duan
  1. The Chengdu 7th Middle School, Chengdu, Sichuan, China
  1. Correspondence to Surong Duan; 2687709707{at}qq.com

https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjpo-2020-000699

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    • You'd better not to gather during the outbreak, there's a lot you can do at home.

    • It's better to do more exercise at home.

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    I am Surong Duan, a 16-year-old girl studying in grade 11 of the Chengdu Seventh Middle School, Sichuan, China. I have been at home for nearly 70 days because of the winter vacation and the covid-19 outbreak preventive isolation. This article will tell you about the changes in my life and study during this period. I am an only child and live with my parents in a flat on the fourteenth floor.

    During the Spring festival (24 January) I heard from the media about many new cases that were increasing every day. I was very afraid I would get sick if I went out. Except for visiting my grandma to have a family reunion dinner, I did not go anywhere. Had I known I would be staying at home for such a long time, I would have been walking around earlier. What a paradox!

    As planned originally, my mother had enrolled me to the cram school programme, because the winter vacation is a valuable time for remedial classes before the important college entrance examination. The plan fell through because of the isolation policy. I …

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