A community worker checking on residents in Chinese city of Shiyan in Hubei province found a sixyear-old boy fending for himself after his grandfather died at home. The worker had been conducting medical checks on residents on Monday when the boy answered the door.
The boy had not left home because his grandfather, 70, had told him not to go out, to avoid exposure to the outbreak, Shiyan People’s Procuratorate, the office that carries out investigations and prosecutions, said on Weibo. It cited a hospital worker who said the man appeared to have been dead for two or three days when he was found. It also said Tan was not infected by the coronavirus and that the time of his death was being investigated.
The reports unleashed public anger online over whether public officials had, in imposing severe lockdown and containment measures in the province, allowed a vulnerable family to fall through the cracks. Tan’s adult son was in the southern Chinese region of Guangxi and unable to return home.
The boy had not left home because his grandfather, 70, had told him not to go out, to avoid exposure to the outbreak, Shiyan People’s Procuratorate, the office that carries out investigations and prosecutions, said on Weibo. It cited a hospital worker who said the man appeared to have been dead for two or three days when he was found. It also said Tan was not infected by the coronavirus and that the time of his death was being investigated.
The reports unleashed public anger online over whether public officials had, in imposing severe lockdown and containment measures in the province, allowed a vulnerable family to fall through the cracks. Tan’s adult son was in the southern Chinese region of Guangxi and unable to return home.
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