Time to relax: Huang playing the guitar with her friends as they camp at a park in Beijing. — Reuters
BEIJING: On a hot, sunny day, children and adults splashed in the cool run-off of the Yongding River in a park on the western outskirts of Beijing, a city under near-lockdown in China’s head-on battle with Covid-19.
While gatherings are discouraged and many parks in the sprawling city of 22 million are shut, Beijingers – like others across China with limited travel options – have taken up outdoor pursuits such as camping and picnicking after more than two years of strict and often claustrophobic pandemic curbs.
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