Lyft to provide 60,000 drivers with partitions to prevent spread of coronavirus
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Lyft is providing thousands of drivers with partitions to protect them from the coronavirus. Yahoo Finance’s Ines Ferre has the details.
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BRIAN SOZZI: All right, let's get back to Ines Ferre for another look at the markets. Ines?
INES FERRE: And Brian, taking a look at Lyft this morning, Lyft says it will distribute some 60,000 partition shields to its most active riders to protect against COVID-19. Recently Lyft began providing partitions to frequent drivers for free. This is an expansion of that program, expanding it to 30 regions.
Later this summer, Lyft will sell the partitions for about $50. That's a production cost, not making any money off of that.
