TY - JOUR T1 - The covid-19 outbreak: a Chinese school student’s life in isolation for 73 days JF - BMJ Paediatrics Open JO - BMJ Paediatrics Open DO - 10.1136/bmjpo-2020-000699 VL - 4 IS - 1 SP - e000699 AU - Surong Duan Y1 - 2020/05/01 UR - http://bmjpaedsopen.bmj.com/content/4/1/e000699.abstract N2 - My suggestionsYou'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.Being quiet and doing somthing you can is more important and useful than being anxious.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 … ER -