China News Service, May 8 (Reporter Wu Tao) Recently, the relevant departments in Beijing reported that a delivery worker was infected with the new crown virus. Until the test was positive, the delivery worker received more than 500 orders, involving 38 restaurants.
Many people are worried that under the epidemic, can they still receive express delivery and order takeaway?
For takeaways and couriers, new epidemic prevention regulations have been issued in many places
The "Guidelines for the Prevention and Control of Takeaway Delivery Personnel During the Epidemic of the New Crown Epidemic (May 2022)" released on the website of the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Commerce on the 6th requires that takeaway delivery personnel must wear N95 (or KN95) masks and disposable gloves when they go out to provide services. .
The new regulations require that takeaway delivery personnel serving in medium and high-risk areas such as closed control areas, control areas, prevention areas, and temporary control areas should adopt a "whitelist" management mechanism, and implement a nucleic acid test and an antigen test every day.
Food delivery workers wear N95 masks.
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The new regulations also require that takeaway delivery personnel serving outside the "white list" of epidemic-related areas shall be subjected to a nucleic acid test every 2 days and an antigen test every other day; takeaway delivery personnel serving non-epidemic-related areas once every 5 days. Nucleic acid amplification testing.
In principle, the scope of activities of takeaway delivery personnel does not exceed the "place of residence-workplace-delivery area".
The reporter noticed that recently, new requirements for epidemic prevention have been increased for deliverymen or couriers in many places.
For example, Nanjing launched the "Nanjing Food Delivery Rider Information System" at the end of April. The system has realized real-time connection with the food delivery platform. All site and rider information in the city has been entered into the system, which can accurately grasp the vaccination of every in-service delivery worker. , nucleic acid testing and other health conditions.
It involves 11 large food delivery platforms (enterprises), 612 delivery sites and 23,400 delivery riders.
Screenshot of the website of the Jiangsu Provincial People's Government.
In order to protect the rights and interests of couriers during the epidemic, Shenzhen, 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 insured amount exceeding 8.8 billion yuan.
In addition, at the press conference of the Joint Prevention and Control Mechanism of the State Council, it was also proposed recently that regular inspections of couriers, parcels and other items entering the campus should be carried out for epidemic prevention and control.
The reporter also learned from a food delivery platform that at present, the platform has established an inquiry channel with the Shanghai SuiBid Big Data Center to verify the nucleic acid test results of riders in real time to prevent riders involved in the epidemic from taking orders.
Each rider must upload a temperature record and hold valid nucleic acid test information before starting work. If it cannot be provided, the work will not be started.
Enterprises have upgraded anti-epidemic measures, and some takeaways are equipped with isolation clothing
Meituan told Zhongxin Finance and Economics that it has sent "epidemic prevention health kits" to the front-line anti-epidemic security personnel in the closed and controlled areas and control areas of Chaoyang District, Fangshan District, Tongzhou District, Xicheng District, and Haidian District in Beijing. Not only the newly required N95 masks, disposable gloves, etc., but also more than 200,000 pieces of anti-epidemic materials such as medical isolation gowns and disposable shoe covers.
Ele.me said that it has urgently purchased hundreds of thousands of N95 masks, face screens and disposable protective gloves, and distributed them free of charge to its takeaway delivery staff.
Data map.
Photo by Yang Huafeng
A deliveryman in Beijing told a reporter from Zhongxin Finance and Economics that N95 masks can now be collected, "Now it is time to 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 relevant epidemic prevention requirements , will be 'rejected' and will be restricted from accepting orders for 1 day by the shipping company you belong to."
Contactless delivery is favored
The reporter noticed that at present, many take-out platforms have been upgraded. When users order take-out, they can choose contactless delivery. The rider will place the take-out at designated locations such as the pick-up cabinet and the door to avoid the risk of epidemic transmission caused by face-to-face contact.
The above-mentioned deliveryman told Zhongxin Finance that there are shelves at the entrance of many communities, and takeaways are placed on them. Finish)