Harbin city shuts eateries, coronavirus curbs ease elsewhere in China

Health Ministry staff wearing hazmat suits as a precaution against the coronavirus on Saturday (May 2) and are waiting to check a truck at a customs checkpoint on the border with Russia at Suifenhe, in China's northeast Heilongjiang province. - AFP

BEIJING/SHANGHAI: A northeastern Chinese city of 10 million people struggling with currently the country's biggest Covid-19 (coronavirus) cluster shut dine-in services on Saturday (May 2), as the rest of China eases restrictions designed to hamper the spread of the disease.

Harbin, the provincial capital of Heilongjiang and its biggest city, said it temporarily suspended dine-in services for all eateries, reported the official CCTV citing an emergency epidemic prevention notice.