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Uber offers money off trips to mass-vaccination centres
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Uber will cover up to £15 worth of passengers’ trips to seven mass-vaccination centres in England, including to the Nightingale hospital in London.
Customers can book the service by entering the correct promotion code for the mass-vaccination hub they are travelling to in the app ahead of booking their journey.
Uber has become the second ride-hailing app to offer to aid the coronavirus inoculation programme. Rival Bolt has offered to provide Londoners with £250,000 worth of free transport to vaccinations centres.
Health secretary Matt Hancock said: “Our national effort to accelerate the vaccine rollout across the country is an essential part of defeating Covid-19 and getting this country back to normal. It is great that Uber is doing their bit by covering free trips to the seven mass-vaccination centres.”
Uber is offering free trips to seven mass-vaccination centres across England, in the hopes of making it easier for the most vulnerable to receive the Covid-19 vaccine.
The ride-hailing firm will cover up to £15 of passengers trips to and from these hubs, in line with the cost of the average fare.
Matt Hancock, Health Secretary, has described the initiative as great , and hopes it will help to accelerate the vaccine rollout across the country.
In the hopes of making it easier for the most vulnerable to receive the Covid-19 vaccine, Uber has announced that it s offering free trips to seven mass-vaccination centres across England
Every GP practice in Bolton now has access to a local Covid-19 vaccination site
There are now nine sites throughout the borough
17:48, 14 JAN 2021
A patient at the Old Vicarage care home in Bolton was among the first to receive the coronavirus vaccine (Image: Bolton Council)
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