Parks in Beijing received about 4.78 million visits during the five-day May Day holiday which ended on Wednesday, down 37.7 percent from the previous year, according to the Beijing Municipal Administration Center of Parks.

Beijing's 10 municipal parks and the national botanical garden received about 1.09 million visits during the holiday, marking a decline of 53.52 percent year on year, according to the center.

During the holiday, parks in Beijing adopted a series of strict epidemic control measures, such as requiring reservations to enter, capping visitor numbers at under 50 percent of capacity, and requiring visitors to produce negative nucleic acid test results obtained within the past 48 hours prior to entry, said the Beijing Municipal Forestry and Parks Bureau.

All restaurants in parks also suspended dine-in services and switched to delivery. All indoor venues in parks were also closed temporarily to curb the spread of the virus.

Some parks rolled out various online experience activities with the help of new media platforms.

On Wednesday, Beijing reported 42 locally transmitted confirmed COVID-19 cases, according to the National Health Commission's report Thursday.