As many Shanghai residents shelter from Covid at home, a common sight on the megacity's suddenly subdued streets is the racing, swerving scooters of food-delivery riders.
Firms including Meituan, Alibaba-owned Ele.me, Pinduoduo and Dingdong Maicai are struggling to keep up with a rush of orders from sequestered citizens in need of groceries and disinfectants.
Dingdong Maicai has hired 300 additional staff across the city in recent days, some of them restaurant workers left idle by closures. "We are an iron army. Whatever artillery fire we face, we react quickly," said Zhang Yangyang, manager of the bustling yet tidy Dingdong sorting depot. With the highly transmissible Omicron variant spreading, authorities have imposed stay-at-home orders or other restrictions in several cities.
Food runners report they are currently making up to 100 deliveries a day, which are often left outside housing complexes to avoid human contact.
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