Customers purchase vegetables at a supermarket ahead of a phased lockdown due to Covid-19 in Shanghai, March 31, 2022. Photo: Bloomberg
Shanghai Covid lockdown: Residents resort to phone calls, group buying to source essentials as food orders, express package deliveries disrupted
- Most e-commerce merchants are not taking orders from Shanghai, with Alibaba’s Tmall informing users that all deliveries to the city have been postponed for seven days
- Shanghai officials denied that all deliveries were suspended, saying that 11,000 food delivery couriers were on duty daily during the lockdown
Customers purchase vegetables at a supermarket ahead of a phased lockdown due to Covid-19 in Shanghai, March 31, 2022. Photo: Bloomberg
