The Uber Eats food delivery service in March saw a 20 percent increase in the number of restaurant contracts in Japan from a month earlier, its operator said Tuesday, as the government urges people to stay at home to contain the coronavirus spread.

As of the end of March, restaurants using Uber Eats topped 20,000 compared with some 17,000 a month earlier, the Japanese arm of U.S. ride-hailing company Uber Technologies Inc. said.

In contrast, it took five months for deliveries to rise 20 percent to the end-of-February figure of 17,000.