TAXI DRIVERS WILL HAVE A STICKER WITH THE DATE THEY WERE VACCINATED

Tobi Hughes·
Madeira News

Taxi drivers from Madeira will use stickers on their vehicles with the date of vaccination. The goal is to convey confidence to customers.

This is an idea that the TaxisRam management wants to put into practice, next week, after the vaccination of half a hundred taxi drivers.

According to the president of the taxi drivers’ association, these professionals were vaccinated on Friday at Madeira Tecnopolo, following a request by TaxisRam to the Regional Secretariat for Health and Civil Protection.

Paulo Pereira says that the sticker, to be visibly placed on the vehicles, with the date of the vaccination, aims to provide security to customers, locals and visitors.

From Jornal Madeira

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7 Responses

  1. This is a really great idea and will, indeed, offer reassurance to their clients. Here’s hoping that they will all soon be vaccinated.

    Would a client be permitted to decline the 1st taxi in the queue if the driver hadn’t received their 2 vaccines and will it be compulsory for all taxi drivers working at the airport to have had both vaccines before being allowed to ply for hire there?

    Just a thought….

    1. YES, You are not forced to take the first taxi, I suppose you would have to hang about until the one you wish to use was at the front of the Q.

  2. Dear, as much I am pro vaccination security etc. This is not the way to go. This is privacy violation and should be forbidden. And at the rnd no guRantee at all no one can and has to publisch his medical data public. As the sticker is on the taxi not on the driver who can guarantee that the sticker belongs to this soecific driver. Don’t want to go back to external symbols of over 70 year ago!

  3. It cannot ever be a legal requirement for anyone to be required to have the vaccination to be able to continue their occupation.

  4. Oh, I’m not sure I like this. First of all, it’s a matter of privacy for the driver. Second of all, not everyone is able to get vaccinated (due to reasons like allergies, for example) and this would be a huge disadvantage for them!

  5. So what people are saying is that persons who have underlying health issues, making them susceptible when exposed, have to potentially gamble their life because of privacy issues. These people will be most likely to take a taxi so as not to be exposed on buses etc. A professional would and should be expected to provide documentation to prove their credentials. If a driver has to forgo the odd fare due to not being able or wanting to prove their vaccination status then so be it. What value, a £10 fare for the driver or a month in intensive care for an innocent passenger or worse. Privacy issues!!!!

  6. With this mess we are beyond privacy issues and into H and S issues, if I don’t have the right licences for driving a certain piece of equipment that may be coupled with a medical,I can’t operate it and any mumber of people have a right to inspect it. If I have a certifiable decease then I have a legal obligation not to pass it to others so we are not altogether in uncharted waters here. And what about this going the other way, customer passing it to driver, surely driver wants best chance of survival which is vaccination.

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