{"id":239646,"date":"2021-08-01T07:14:47","date_gmt":"2021-08-01T07:14:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=239646"},"modified":"2021-08-03T06:48:58","modified_gmt":"2021-08-03T06:48:58","slug":"uber-and-deliveroo-will-offer-young-adults-cheap-food-in-exchange-for-a-covid-vaccine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=239646","title":{"rendered":"Uber and Deliveroo will offer young adults cheap food in exchange for a Covid vaccine"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><strong>Uber, Deliveroo and Pizza Pilgrims are in discussion about offering jab incentives<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Only two-thirds of people aged 18-30 in England have had first dose since June<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>In plan, Uber will offer discounts for under-30s in cars and takeaway services<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Other companies will be offering vouchers or discount codes for food and films\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Glen Owen \u2013 Daily Mail Aug 1, 2021<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>Young adults will be lured into vaccination centres with the promise of cut-price taxis and takeaways, as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/boris_johnson\/index.html\"><strong>Boris Johnson<\/strong><\/a> tries to tackle the relatively low take-up among the under-30s.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sciencetech\/uber\/index.html\"><strong>Uber<\/strong><\/a>, Deliveroo and Pizza Pilgrims are among the companies in discussion with the Government about offering incentives as part of the \u2018Jab 18-30\u2019 drive.<\/p>\n<p>So far, only two-thirds of people in that age bracket in England have received a first dose since they became eligible in June, compared with 88.4 per cent across all age groups, meaning more than three million 18-to-30-year-olds remain unjabbed.<\/p>\n<p>As part of the plan, Uber will be sending out reminders to its users throughout this month and, along with rival ride-hailing app Bolt, will be offering discounts for under-30s in both cars and food takeaway services.<\/p>\n<p>Other companies will be offering vouchers or discount codes for food and films if users can prove through the NHS app that they have had the jab.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-9847923\/Uber-Deliveroo-offer-young-adults-cheap-food-exchange-Covid-vaccine.html\">Continues \u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Young adults will be lured into vaccination centres in the UK with the promise of cut-price taxis and takeaways &#8211; as a Pfizer booster is made available for over-50s and clinically vulnerable <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coronavirus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=239646"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":239648,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239646\/revisions\/239648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=239646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=239646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=239646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}