From e-commerce giant JD.com to cosmetics brand Sephora, companies in China are rushing to minimise the impact of surging COVID infections - doling out test kits, encouraging more work from home and, in some cases, procuring truckloads of medicine.
, which is headquartered in Beijing and employs more than 540,000 people, has sent antigen test kits to its staff and is asking those who are sick to stay home, sources at the company told Reuters.
"The spread of the virus is severe and there is a big risk of infection," said the gym. It had just reopened five days ago after having had to shut for more than two weeks due to district-wide COVID curbs. "We have sent trucks of medicines and equipment to the factory to be well prepared," Nio's president Qin Lihong told a media roundtable on Monday.
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