Less travel during Golden Week

Travel during Golden Week is down by a third compared to pre-Covid times. According to the Ministry of Transport, the number of trips on China’s roads, rails and other transport routes measured on Tuesday was 33.8 percent below 2019 levels, Bloomberg reports. According to the report, the situation was similar for the first five days of the holiday week: During that time, travel was on average a third lower than before the Corona pandemic, it said.