(Yicai Global) April 13 -- Chinese ride-hailing platforms, including T3go.Com and Meituan, are taking measures to help drivers whose income are reduced with less or no orders amid the Covid-19 pandemic.

T3go.Com will implement targeted policies in regions hit by Covid-19 restrictions such as Shandong province’s Jinan to guarantee eligible low-income drivers' income, the platform announced recently. Its business in Shanghai and Zhejiang province's Jiaxing is suspended.

Since March, the Covid-19 pandemic has spread to 30 provinces with more than 325,000 cases. Shanghai, the country's most populous city, is reporting surging numbers of new cases.

On-demand service provider Meituan's taxi platform have cooperated with dozens of institutions to reimburse drivers' nucleic acid testing costs and provide them with pandemic prevention supplies, it said. The Beijing-based company will also lower drivers’ fees during the pandemic.

Last month, China’s online ride-hailing orders slid 29 percent to 539 million trips from a year ago, according to the transport ministry. The volume was 2 percent lower than a month earlier. China had almost 270 ride-hailing platforms as of March 31, and 18 of them recorded more than 300,000 orders.

Editor: Emmi Laine, Xiao Yi