In recent days, primary and secondary school classes have been forced to move online. Restaurants and bars have been closed to in-store dining, dozens of subway stations have been shut and supermarket shelves have been stripped bare and then restocked several times.

None of this has been enough to bother Sun Yanxu, a 35-year-old delivery driver who moved to Beijing earlier this year. “I haven’t stockpiled anything and don’t think it’s necessary,” he said, adding that he didn’t have a problem with the government’s handling of the outbreaks and didn’t think Beijing would be locked down.

“I believe in the government and think all the restrictions are correct and it’s just a matter of people obeying them or not,” Mr. Sun said. Though Mr. Sun said Beijing’s tightening Covid-19 restrictions haven’t yet hampered his movements, the native of the central Chinese province of Shanxi said his income had been hit by the stricter rules.

Similarly, Lü Xiyao, a 28-year-old yoga instructor from the neighboring province of Hubei, said she didn’t feel a need to stock up on groceries, confident that Beijing would avoid a Shanghai-style lockdown.