BEIJING: Many Chinese are observing a May Day holiday this year as the government’s zero-Covid approach restricts travel and imposes lockdowns in several cities.
All restaurants in Beijing are closed to customers from Sunday to Wednesday until the end of the holiday, open only for takeout and delivery. Parks and tourist attractions in the Chinese capital are limited to 50% of their capacity. Universal Studios The theme park in Beijing, which opened last year, said it was temporarily closed.
The pandemic situation varies in the vast country of 1.4 billion people, but Ministry of Transportation Last week it said it expected to make 100 million trips from Saturday to Wednesday, down 60% from last year. Many of those who are traveling are staying within their province as local governments discourage or restrict cross-border travel to try to keep new infections at bay.
China is tightening zero-covid policy Even as many other countries are easing restrictions and seeing if they can live with the virus. Much of Shanghai, China’s largest city and a finance, manufacturing and shipping hub, is closed, disrupting people’s lives and jolting the economy.
The major outbreak in Shanghai, where the death toll topped 400, appears to be subsiding. The city reported 7,872 new locally transmitted cases on Saturday, up by more than 20,000 a day in recent weeks. Outside Shanghai, only 384 new cases were found in the rest of mainland China.
Beijing, which has tallied 321 cases in the past nine days, is restricting activity to prevent a major outbreak and avoid a city-wide lockdown similar to Shanghai. Individual buildings and housing complexes with coronavirus cases have been closed.
Visitors to many office buildings and tourist sites such as the Great Wall must show evidence of a negative COVID-19 test within the past 48 hours.
Online booking agency Ctrip said last week that people were booking travel to cities that were mostly virus-free, such as Chengdu in Sichuan province and the nearby city of Chongqing. Other popular destinations include wuhanWhere the world’s first major Kovid-19 outbreak occurred in early 2020. About half of the orders on the cTrip platform were for travel within a province.
All restaurants in Beijing are closed to customers from Sunday to Wednesday until the end of the holiday, open only for takeout and delivery. Parks and tourist attractions in the Chinese capital are limited to 50% of their capacity. Universal Studios The theme park in Beijing, which opened last year, said it was temporarily closed.
The pandemic situation varies in the vast country of 1.4 billion people, but Ministry of Transportation Last week it said it expected to make 100 million trips from Saturday to Wednesday, down 60% from last year. Many of those who are traveling are staying within their province as local governments discourage or restrict cross-border travel to try to keep new infections at bay.
China is tightening zero-covid policy Even as many other countries are easing restrictions and seeing if they can live with the virus. Much of Shanghai, China’s largest city and a finance, manufacturing and shipping hub, is closed, disrupting people’s lives and jolting the economy.
The major outbreak in Shanghai, where the death toll topped 400, appears to be subsiding. The city reported 7,872 new locally transmitted cases on Saturday, up by more than 20,000 a day in recent weeks. Outside Shanghai, only 384 new cases were found in the rest of mainland China.
Beijing, which has tallied 321 cases in the past nine days, is restricting activity to prevent a major outbreak and avoid a city-wide lockdown similar to Shanghai. Individual buildings and housing complexes with coronavirus cases have been closed.
Visitors to many office buildings and tourist sites such as the Great Wall must show evidence of a negative COVID-19 test within the past 48 hours.
Online booking agency Ctrip said last week that people were booking travel to cities that were mostly virus-free, such as Chengdu in Sichuan province and the nearby city of Chongqing. Other popular destinations include wuhanWhere the world’s first major Kovid-19 outbreak occurred in early 2020. About half of the orders on the cTrip platform were for travel within a province.