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Beijing locks down more people in China’s ‘zero-COVID’ fight

Construction workers wearing masks leave for lunch from a worksite on Tuesday, May 17, 2022, in Beijing. Authorities in Beijing restricted more residents to their homes on Tuesday in a now 3-week-long effort to control a small but persistent COVID-19 outbreak in the Chinese capital. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

Security guards stand at an entrance to the Wanliu Campus of Peking University on Tuesday, May 17, 2022, in Beijing. Administrators at the elite Beijing university have backed down from plans to further tighten pandemic restrictions on students as part of China’s “zero-COVID” strategy after a weekend protest at the school, according to students Tuesday. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

A security guard and a pandemic worker stand guard near the words "Peking University" at one of the entrance to the main campus of Peking University on Tuesday, May 17, 2022, in Beijing. Administrators at the elite Beijing university have backed down from plans to further tighten pandemic restrictions on students as part of China’s “zero-COVID” strategy after a weekend protest at the school, according to students Tuesday. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

Construction workers wearing masks leave for lunch from a worksite on Tuesday, May 17, 2022, in Beijing. Authorities in Beijing restricted more residents to their homes on Tuesday in a now 3-week-long effort to control a small but persistent COVID-19 outbreak in the Chinese capital. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

Couriers pass over their deliveries at one of the entrance to the main campus of Peking University on Tuesday, May 17, 2022, in Beijing. Administrators at the elite Beijing university have backed down from plans to further tighten pandemic restrictions on students as part of China’s “zero-COVID” strategy after a weekend protest at the school, according to students Tuesday. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

Security guards stand at an entrance to the Wanliu Campus of Peking University on Tuesday, May 17, 2022, in Beijing. Administrators at the elite Beijing university have backed down from plans to further tighten pandemic restrictions on students as part of China’s “zero-COVID” strategy after a weekend protest at the school, according to students Tuesday. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

A security guard and a pandemic worker stand guard near the words "Peking University" at one of the entrance to the main campus of Peking University on Tuesday, May 17, 2022, in Beijing. Administrators at the elite Beijing university have backed down from plans to further tighten pandemic restrictions on students as part of China’s “zero-COVID” strategy after a weekend protest at the school, according to students Tuesday. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

A woman shows a security guard proof for entry near the words "Peking University" at one of the entrance to the main campus of Peking University on Tuesday, May 17, 2022, in Beijing. Administrators at the elite Beijing university have backed down from plans to further tighten pandemic restrictions on students as part of China’s “zero-COVID” strategy after a weekend protest at the school, according to students Tuesday. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

Construction workers wearing masks leave for lunch from a worksite on Tuesday, May 17, 2022, in Beijing. Authorities in Beijing restricted more residents to their homes on Tuesday in a now 3-week-long effort to control a small but persistent COVID-19 outbreak in the Chinese capital. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

Couriers pass over their deliveries at one of the entrance to the main campus of Peking University on Tuesday, May 17, 2022, in Beijing. Administrators at the elite Beijing university have backed down from plans to further tighten pandemic restrictions on students as part of China’s “zero-COVID” strategy after a weekend protest at the school, according to students Tuesday. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

Security guards stand at an entrance to the Wanliu Campus of Peking University on Tuesday, May 17, 2022, in Beijing. Administrators at the elite Beijing university have backed down from plans to further tighten pandemic restrictions on students as part of China’s “zero-COVID” strategy after a weekend protest at the school, according to students Tuesday. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

A security guard and a pandemic worker stand guard near the words "Peking University" at one of the entrance to the main campus of Peking University on Tuesday, May 17, 2022, in Beijing. Administrators at the elite Beijing university have backed down from plans to further tighten pandemic restrictions on students as part of China’s “zero-COVID” strategy after a weekend protest at the school, according to students Tuesday. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

A woman shows a security guard proof for entry near the words "Peking University" at one of the entrance to the main campus of Peking University on Tuesday, May 17, 2022, in Beijing. Administrators at the elite Beijing university have backed down from plans to further tighten pandemic restrictions on students as part of China’s “zero-COVID” strategy after a weekend protest at the school, according to students Tuesday. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

Construction workers wearing masks leave for lunch from a worksite on Tuesday, May 17, 2022, in Beijing. Authorities in Beijing restricted more residents to their homes on Tuesday in a now 3-week-long effort to control a small but persistent COVID-19 outbreak in the Chinese capital. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

A resident gets a COVID test set up outside a shuttered commercial office complex on Tuesday, May 17, 2022, in Beijing. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

A woman wearing a mask past by a shuttered restaurant that served barbecued mutton on Tuesday, May 17, 2022, in Beijing. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

Residents wearing masks fish from a canal on Tuesday, May 17, 2022, in Beijing. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

Residents wear mask as they past near a bus stop with Chinese painting on the wall on Tuesday, May 17, 2022, in Beijing. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

A woman and child wearing face masks walk past a sign reading "Mask on and stay away from crowds" at a green space in Beijing, Tuesday, May 17, 2022. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

Workers put up caution tape to close off part of a green space along a waterway in Beijing, Tuesday, May 17, 2022. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

A woman wearing a face mask jogs along a waterway in Beijing, Tuesday, May 17, 2022. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

A man wearing a face mask fishes along a waterway in Beijing, Tuesday, May 17, 2022. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

People wearing face masks walk along a green space in Beijing, Tuesday, May 17, 2022. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

People wearing face masks walk past a sign reading "Mask on and stay away from crowds" at a green space in Beijing, Tuesday, May 17, 2022. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

A man wearing a face mask looks at his smartphone near caution tape put up to close off part a green space along a waterway in Beijing, Tuesday, May 17, 2022. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

A man and a boy fish along a waterway in Beijing, Tuesday, May 17, 2022. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

A woman and a child wearing face masks visit a canal displaying pandemic measures notices advising residents not to gather in numbers on Tuesday, May 17, 2022, in Beijing. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

A child rubs his eyes after getting a COVID-19 test during a public testing on Tuesday, May 17, 2022, in Beijing. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

A woman wearing a face mask rides by a masked cleaner at a barricaded square to prevent residents from gathering due to pandemic measures on Tuesday, May 17, 2022, in Beijing. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

Women in face masks walk by people resting along a canal displaying pandemic measures notices to advise residents not to gather on Tuesday, May 17, 2022, in Beijing. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

A woman wearing a face mask waits for customers next to her vehicle loaded with packed meats for sale after authorities shuttered all restaurants, allowing only take away, outside a resident complex on Tuesday, May 17, 2022, in Beijing. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

Workers put up caution tape to close off part of a green space along a waterway in Beijing, Tuesday, May 17, 2022. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

A resident walks her dog as delivery men wait to collect take out orders outside a restaurant on Tuesday, May 17, 2022, in Beijing. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

A woman wearing a face mask rides a bicycle past stores closed for COVID-19 control at a shopping mall in Beijing, Tuesday, May 17, 2022. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

Beijing locks down more people in China’s ‘zero-COVID’ fight