From laps of the apartment to fears for students

[GoodTaste]

How Shanghai’s scientists are coping amid harsh COVID lockdown
From laps of the apartment to fears for students who desperately need data, four researchers speak about their lockdown experience.
Source: Nature

Does lap here mean a place or situation of rest or care?

 

[Tarheel]

I think that's a good guess. (That's a usage I am unfamiliar with.)

 

[5jj]

It means nothing to me.

 

[jutfrank]

The student in question has been walking around his apartment (doing laps) in order to get some exercise.

 

[SoothingDave]

Yes. Walking around in the apartment.

 

[Tarheel]

There is not much room in an apartment for doing much walking.