Many Chinese marking a quiet May Day holiday

Many Chinese are marking a quiet May Day holiday this year as the government's "zero-COVID" approach restricts travel and enforces lockdowns in multiple cities.  All restaurants in Beijing are closed to dine-in customers from Sunday open only for takeout and delivery.

The pandemic situation varies across the vast nation of 1.4 billion people, but the Transport Ministry said last week that it expected 100 million trips to be taken from Saturday to Wednesday, which would be 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 out new infections.