A food delivery driver who delivered an average of 50 orders per day was among the confirmed Covid-19 cases reported on Sunday in Beijing, the local health authority revealed on Tuesday, raising concerns about further spread of the disease in the Chinese capital.
Zeng Xiaopeng, director of the Beijing municipal center for disease prevention and control, said at a press conference that the patient was a 47-year-old who worked as a food deliveryman for the Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.-owned platform Ele.me.
Major food delivery platform Eleme requires new registered riders in Beijing to hold nucleic acid test negative results before accepting orders
Since Jun. 1, the driver had visited a number of restaurants, grocery stores and shopping malls across the south and east of the city. On Sunday, he was picked up by an ambulance and transferred to a hospital’s fever department for Covid-19 testing. He tested positive that day, according to Zeng.
A food delivery driver who delivered an average of 50 orders per day was among the confirmed Covid-19 cases reported on Sunday in Beijing, the local health authority revealed on Tuesday, raising concerns about further spread of the disease in the Chinese capital.
Major food delivery platform Eleme requires new registered riders in Beijing to hold nucleic acid test negative results before accepting orders
