E-commerce firms confident of riding out the Maharashtra lockdown

Bengaluru | Mumbai: Maharashtra’s new Covid-related restrictions will likely have minimal impact on e-commerce, firms said.

The state government had on Sunday ordered that delivery and supply chain staff of e-commerce companies must either be vaccinated or carry a negative RT-PCR test report, starting April 10. Top company executives told ET they will ensure continuity of operations despite increase in costs on account of mass testing.

Hari Menon, co-founder and chief executive officer of India’s largest online grocer BigBasket, said that the company has reached out to the state authorities to understand if they would be organising camps for mass testing of their workforce, or if they’d give any special permission to allow vaccination of last-mile delivery agents.