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Delivery companies are struggling to keep up. In a press conference in February, the department of commerce director of Hubei province, Qin Jun, said that in a single day, e-commerce companies received 22,000 orders in the province and delivered 1,337 tons of necessities. JD Logistics, one of the country's largest courier companies, says they are looking for 20,000 warehouse workers, couriers and drivers to help with deliveries during the outbreak.

PHOTOS: In A Coronavirus Crisis, Delivery Workers Can Be A Lifeline The city of Wuhan may be in lockdown — but its couriers are still on the move, delivering everything from medical supplies to instant noodles.

Logistics on-demand startup Lalamove raises $100M as it approaches a $1B valuation Unicorns are like buses for Hong Kong. After living in the shadow of other cities and waiting around for its first, it now has (almost) two billion-dollar..

On-Demand Childcare Service UrbanSitter Raises $17M Series C, With Investors Including Women Customers Rather unusually for a Silicon Valley funding round, just over $1 million of this investment comes from 'power users' of UrbanSitter, which links families to on-demand babysitters and nannies: a dozen influential women.