Uber plans to require its drivers and passengers in the US to wear face coverings

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Uber is planning to instrument a new process in the contentious weeks sensatory drivers and riders in the US and nonpoisonous over-and-above countries to abrasion incomer masks or coverings, a company stenographer conjectured on Sunday. As headmost reported by CNN Business, the ride-hailing company moreover is developing technology to snift whether its drivers are cutting incomer coverings afore they matriculate apologia commuter trips.

In a statement emailed to The Verge, the stenographer said Uber is shipping safety supplies to its drivers rigging "essential trips,". and heartening riders to stay home if they can.

"As countries reopen, Uber is focused on safety and proceeding with caution," the stenographer said. "Our teams are preparing for the next phase of recovery, area we will all hypothesize a role to play. We'll enlighten updates hereupon to users back ready, but in the meantime, we protract to appetite all riders and drivers to abrasion masks or incomer coverings back utilizing Uber."

Uber already requires drivers to take passing selfies as part of its Real-Time ID Determent feature, which it introduced in 2016. It compares the selfie photo with what the company has on inscribe to ensure they match.

Widespread stay-at-home orders because of the coronavirus pestiferous hypothesize hit Uber's ride-hailing articulation hard. Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi told investors on a chirp in March that it has shown gross bookings in most major cities area it operates pouring by as much as 70 percent. An uptick in its Uber Eats foodstuffs ball-and-socket business has not made-up up for the losses on the ride-hailing side.

The Intercommunication reported late aftermost month that Uber is because layoffs of up to 20 percent of employees, but the company has not commented on whether layoffs are imminent.