Sri Lanka, April 5 -- Daraz, Sri Lanka's largest e-commerce platform, ordinarily connects thousands of sellers to millions of consumers across the country. Now, however, the scalability and scope of the e-commerce giant's platform and logistics expertise have urgent applications that will sustain the people in these uncertain times - the delivery of essential goods every day to Sri Lankan households currently on lockdown.

Due to the measures to slow the spread of the virus, an unfortunate consequence is that getting essential goods to households has been severely restricted, preventing Daraz from operating at full capacity and preventing thousands of people daily from obtaining essential goods for their families.

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