“I work on the days when I can, then if they need any help and I’m the closest, the app pings and off I go.”
In Madrid’s deserted streets with paying customers scarce, taxi drivers running doctors from house-to-house or taking the sick to hospital have become an essential service, their free rides helping frontline medics fight the virus.
“I work on the days when I can, then if they need any help and I’m the closest, the app pings and off I go,” says Gaby Saez, 45, who has spent the past six weeks behind the wheel since Spain imposed a strict national lockdown on March 14. The idea was to reduce the number of people going to health centres to stop them picking up the virus or passing on the infection to medical staff.
EU health chiefs at the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control say measures to prevent transmission in healthcare facilities “are an immediate priority”. “For me, it’s been absolutely essential,” says Sara del Carmen Vicente, a 23-year-old nurse at Madrid’s October 12 hospital.
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