Cafes and restaurants in downtown Yerevan’s Cascade, and throughout the country, are now closed as per the order of Armenian PM Nikol Pashinyan.

Eateries can only make deliveries.

A morning stroll through the Cascade found workers stacking chairs and tables and chaining them up. Some café owners are using the downtime to make interior alterations.

Flower sellers were out in force. “No one’s buying flowers. But people smile when they see me out here still hawking my flowers,” said one vendor