In an upsurge of community spirit, Canberrans are rallying round to get food and essentials to the housebound.
The big and small are stepping forward in a huge spontaneous effort.
Supermarkets have ramped up operations.
Coles is now delivering 28,200 items a day to 600 ACT homes. Before the lockdown, it was just about half that at 330 orders to homes a day.
Deliveroo said orders had doubled since the lockdown started.
Ordinary people are also stepping forward.
"I thought, 'I'm sitting here at home doing nothing so I might as well help someone'," Canberran Debbie Hart said.
She has offered to deliver click and collect from supermarkets for people who can't get out - her own sister is house-bound with a serious illness.
I'm sitting here at home doing nothing so I might as well help someone.
Debbie Hart
Her dog salons, including Bark Royal, are closed because of the lockdown so she thought her free time could go to help the community.
In some workplaces, bosses have offered to deliver to staff working from home.
Businesses are reorienting themselves to home deliveries.
Spit Shack owner Kreso Spelic said he had an old Woolworths refrigerated truck which he would be using to get food to customers.
His usual range of spit-roast pulled pork and burek (meat, cheese, cheese and spinach) would be available but he had also agreed with Tilba dairy to deliver its milk if requested.
The basics like flour or eggs could be taken, too.
ACT Chief Minister Andrew Barr praised the communal effort.
"Our extensive community network will be able to step up and assist," he said.
He took to Twitter to point out businesses which did home deliveries.
The major supermarkets have ramped up their efforts, both with click online and collect at the carpark, and with home delivery.
Coles has 17 vans doing deliveries twice a day across 145 ACT suburbs. Teams of loaders start at 2 or 3am and work in shifts until midnight.
Coles' "online customer shoppers" read the orders online and then walk the aisles to pick up the items and pack them. It is labour intensive.
"I work whatever it takes," Coles ACT regional manager John Appleby said.
He took his first phone call at 5am on Tuesday and his last at half past midnight.
Because of the upsurge in demand for deliveries, slots are often booked days ahead.
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Mr Appleby said an increased effort was being made to meet demand.
He urged people to plan.
"If you want your shopping on a particular day, get it into the system," he said.
"I'm so proud of my team and I'm so proud of the ACT community.
"It's tough out there. It's the ability to work together not only for humanity but for Canberra."
People are buying in cooked food more, according to delivery service Deliveroo.
It said orders had doubled in Canberra since the lockdown, "with every cuisine type growing in popularity".
"Burgers, Chinese and chicken are proving to be the three highest growth cuisine types."
People are also ordering lunch more frequently, particularly on Fridays and Saturdays.
