China News Service, May 8 (Reporter Wu Tao) Recently, relevant departments in Beijing reported an accident that a takeaway deliveryman was infected with the new coronavirus. Until the test was positive, the takeawayman received more than 500 orders, involving 38 restaurants. Many people are worried that during the epidemic, can we still receive express delivery and order takeaway?
For takeaway workers and couriers, new epidemic prevention regulations have been issued in many places
Beijing Municipal Bureau of Commerce website released on the 6th "Guidelines for Prevention and Control of Takeaway Delivery Personnel during the Epidemic of the New Coronavirus (May 2022 Edition)" requires that takeaway delivery personnel be in You must wear N95 (or KN95) masks and disposable gloves when providing services.
new regulations require that for takeaway delivery personnel in medium and high-risk areas such as blocked control areas, control areas, prevention areas, temporary control areas, etc., adopt a "white list" management mechanism, and implement nucleic acid test once a day and antigen testing once a day .
The new regulations also require that nucleic acid tests every 2 days and antigen tests every other day for takeaway delivery personnel serving non-epidemic areas will be implemented; 1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1 nucleic acid test. In principle, the scope of activities of takeaway delivery personnel shall not exceed the "place of residence - workplace - delivery area".
reporter noticed that recently, many places have added new epidemic prevention requirements for deliverymen or couriers.
For example, Nanjing City launched the "Nanjing Takeaway Rider Information System" at the end of April. This system realizes real-time docking with the takeaway platform. All sites and rider information in the city have been entered into the system, which can accurately grasp the vaccines of every on-the-job deliveryman. Health status such as vaccination, nucleic acid testing. It involves 11 large food delivery platforms (enterprises), 612 delivery sites, and 23,400 delivery riders.

Screenshot of the website of Jiangsu Provincial People's Government .
In order to protect the rights and interests of couriers during the epidemic, Shenzhen City, Guangdong Province recently included couriers in the city's epidemic prevention public welfare insurance coverage. A total of 44,342 couriers in the industry successfully participated in the insurance, with a total insurance amount exceeding 8.8 billion yuan.
In addition, The State Council’s Joint Prevention and Control Mechanism recently proposed that express delivery, parcels and other items entering campus should be subject to routine inspections on epidemic prevention and control.
reporter also learned from a food delivery platform that the platform has established a query channel with Shanghai Suishenban Big Data Center to verify the rider's nucleic acid test results in real time to avoid riders involved in the epidemic taking orders. Each rider must upload a temperature record before starting work and hold valid nucleic acid testing information. If it cannot be provided, the work will not be started.
companies have upgraded epidemic prevention measures, and some takeaway workers have provided isolation services
Meituan to China News Service, which has already been Beijing Chaoyang District, Fangshan District, Tongzhou District, Xicheng District, and Haidian District, and Haidian District, The front-line anti-epidemic supply guarantee personnel in the locked control area and control area sent "epidemic prevention and health packages", which not only included the newly required N95 masks, disposable gloves, etc., but also added more than 20 medical isolation suits, disposable shoe covers, etc. Ten thousand pieces of epidemic prevention materials.
Ele.me said that Ele.me has urgently purchased hundreds of thousands of N95 masks, face screens and disposable protective gloves to be distributed to its takeaway delivery personnel for free.
There is a deliveryman from Beijing area who told China News Service reporters that they can currently receive N95 masks. "Now, upload the health code and nucleic acid test certificate to the rider APP before going online every day. If the health code is abnormal or the nucleic acid certificate does not meet the requirements. Regarding epidemic prevention requirements, they will be 'rejected' and are restricted from taking orders for one day by their affiliated delivery company. "
contactless delivery is favored
reporter noticed that many takeaway platforms have been upgraded, and users can choose to takeaway when ordering takeaway. For delivery, riders will place takeout at designated locations such as the pickup cabinet and doorstep to avoid the risk of epidemic transmission caused by face-to-face contact.
The above deliveryman told Chinanews Finance that there are shelves at the entrances of many communities now, and takeout is placed on it. "It's not that it's not that it won't be delivered to home, but some communities do not allow deliverymen to enter. After the explanation, users can basically understand it." (End)
Source: China News Network