Lockdown 4.0: Relief for e-commerce firms as deliveries can resume in red zones

The ministry of home affairs allowed delivery of non-essential products in red zones, as part of the new guidelines issued on Sunday for Lockdown 4.0, providing huge relief to e-commerce companies.

Now, e-commerce firms may finally resume full operations after nearly two months of staggered operations after the lockdown began on 25 March. So far, they could only deliver essentials, such as groceries, which is a small part of the business for most, including Amazon and Flipkart.

From 4 May, the firms were only allowed to deliver non-essential products in orange and green zones. However, large parts of most major cities were in red zones, and thus, remained out of bounds for non-essential deliveries.