In Wuhan, China’s Residential Committees Fight Outbreak on Front Line

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In Wuhan, China’s Residential Committees Fight Outbreak on Front Line

WUHAN, China—Local Communist Party representative Xiao Lifang has been working nearly nonstop since the outbreak of a deadly virus here, helping to figure out who needs to be quarantined or hospitalized, checking temperatures, and delivering food and medicine to the thousands of residents she oversees.

“Everything is dumped on the shequ,” she said, using the Chinese word for community committee. “We’re not doctors.”

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