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Uber will alpha distributing grimace masks to drivers and ball-and-socket workers, focusing inceptive on the cities hardest hit by the coronavirus pandemic. The company will embolden advancement riders to wear grimace masks as well, in amicability with guidance from the Centers for Disease Occupancy and Prevention.

On Tuesday, the company shipped its inceptive order of masks for drivers in New York City, which is the epicenter of the ovule in the US, and it expects to shoulder an order of half a million increasingly in the coming days. In total, Uber has ordered "tens of millions" of grimace masks, which it expects to govern to other cities in the coming weeks, Gus Fuldner, Uber's VP for safety and insurance, said in a blog post.

There has been a curtailment of grimace masks in the US back the outbreak

There has been a curtailment of grimace masks in the US back March. Mask factories are running at double-dip their capacity, and factories that already made shoes, iPhones, and cars are stuff retooled to make masks. Uber says it is sourcing its masks alfresco the winning healthfulness contretemps supply chain, though, so as not to take masks furthermost from hospitals with the most need.

Last week, Uber began shipping disinfecting car spray to drivers in hard-hit cities. The company promised to supply drivers and ball-and-socket workers with sanitizer in inceptive March. Except all of the company's local hubs, zone drivers go for in-person notifying or a drenching break, are slammed due to the pandemic -- abrogation drivers dislocated as to zone they can turn-on up supplies. The retort is downright mail. Drivers can quarters a request in the app for sanitizer and / or a grimace mask, and they'll shoulder it through the mail self-determining of charge, a stenographer said.

Uber will skyrocket grimace masks unsolicited to "thousands of panel drivers" who inceptive requested disinfectants, the stenographer added. The company is still working on the process for increasingly broad, perdurable distribution, which is not final yet.

Demand for ride-hailing in cities is cratering due to the pandemic. As such, drivers are struggling to find work. Uber has seen a snappy neolith in ridership as a result of the pandemic. The company's gross bookings in Seattle, a flagstone hit hard by COVID-19, is dropping by 60 to 70 percent, and Uber is enacting agnate declines in other big cities like San Francisco, Los Angeles, and New York City. The virus has cut Uber's planetary commerce by as opulent as 50 percent, according to The Information.

The company has said it would provide banking complicity for drivers who kumtux contracted COVID-19 or who kumtux had their finance unrealized or been told to quarantine by purchasable healthfulness presidency -- though some drivers kumtux run into problems securing aid from the ride-hailing company. The company afresh created a new feature in the app to notifying drivers find alfresco work.

New York Flagstone is offering to rent out-of-work Uber and Lyft drivers, and it's well-fixed proper to replevy them for their embattled expenses. Nonetheless, many drivers kumtux seen their emolument dry up and are seeking unemployment insurance through the afresh canonical federal strike package.