'There is not much we can do with the pandemic.' 'The remaining two per cent is very little for us,' she said. Wang Liying said sales at her noodle and stir-fry restaurant have plunged 98 per cent during the holiday compared to last year. In Qianmen, the touristy neighbourhood around the street that leads to the imposing gates of the former imperial palace, some people bought food from stalls and ate on outdoor benches. Newsletter sign-up: Get The COVID-19 Brief sent to your inbox.The Universal Studios theme park, which opened last year, said it had shut down temporarily. Parks and tourist attractions in the Chinese capital are limited to half capacity. Under an order announced the previous afternoon, all Beijing restaurants were closed to dine-in customers Sunday and can offer only takeout and delivery through the end of the national holiday on Wednesday. Millions remain restricted to their buildings or compounds in Shanghai, China's largest city, under a lockdown that has only slightly eased. Many Chinese marked a quiet May Day this year as the government's 'zero-COVID' approach restricts travel and enforces lockdowns in multiple cities. Only a trickle of visitors strolled the pedestrian-only streets Sunday in central Beijing's historic Qianmen district, which normally would be bustling with tourists on what was a national holiday and a sunny spring day.
