Beijing reopens restaurants

Services resume: A resident having his swab test done at a nucleic acid testing site in front of a restaurant in Beijing. — Reuters

DINERS returned to restaurants in most of Beijing for the first time in more than a month yesterday as authorities further eased pandemic-related restrictions after largely eradicating a small Covid-19 outbreak in the capital under China’s strict “zero-Covid” approach.

Museums, cinemas and gyms were allowed to operate at up to 75% of capacity and delivery drivers could once again bring packages to a customer’s door, rather than leave them to be picked up at the entrances to apartment compounds.