Medical workers set up contemporary nucleic acid detection stations in Shengsi county. [Photo/zhoushan.cn]

More than 400 visitors have been stranded in Shengsi, a popular tourist destination in Zhoushan, East China's Zhejiang province, since the Omicron variant was first detected in the county on March 17, local media reported on March 20.

All of them have been sent to local hotels or homestays. Wang Yu, one such stranded visitor, has been staying on Gouqi Island for 26 days.

On Feb 22, Wang, a technicist at the Fifty-fourth Institute of China Electronics Technology Group Corporation, came to the island to perform maintenance on a weather radar system with four other colleagues.

On May 17, when they planned to leave Shengsi, they were told to stay put due to a local outbreak.

Wang said that they had been well looked after on Gouqi Island over the past days.

On March 19, Zheng Zhonghui, chairman of Gouqi Tourism Association, visited the stranded visitors to bring them supplies, including bottled water, fruit, and other food.

Some owners of local homestays also donated food, and some even offered free lunches to their lodgers during the outbreak.