[Update: Multiple Cities] Uber, Ola Shut Down Services in Delhi-NCR Amidst Coronavirus Crisis

// Update one (24/03/2020 iv:59 pm) Uber halts service across multiple cities

Uber has shut down its ride-hailing services in Delhi NCR while Ola has drastically reduced the availability of its cabs in the city because of the coronavirus crisis. In separate printing statements on Monday, the companies said that the decision will remain in place at least until March 31st amongst the lockdown announced by the state government on Sunday. Both companies had last week suspended their carpool services in the city to contain the spread of the deadly virus.

While Uber is displaying terse alerts on its app about the suspension of its services in the city, the Ola app doesn't seem to exist showing whatsoever such alerts for now, but both companies have seemingly confirmed the move to multiple media outlets in the country. Do note, all the same, that while Uber has shut down its services completely, Ola says it volition "enable a minimal network of vehicles to support essential services in cities, wherever applicable, as part of this national effort to reduce the contagion of COVID-nineteen".

[Update: Multiple Cities] Uber, Ola Shut Down Services in Delhi-NCR Amidst Coronavirus Crisis

As for Uber, information technology has close shop completely in the Delhi NCR region, and if reports are to exist believed, the availability of its cabs in several other major cities take too been reduced drastically. An Uber spokesperson confirmed the shutdown in a statement to News 18, proverb: "Uber is complying with all Central and Country Authorities directives related to its services for containing the spread of Coronavirus".

Similar most of the other sectors of the services manufacture, ride-aggregation services take as well seen a massive fall in customers over the past few weeks as people are cancelling non-essential travel and companies are offering work-for-home facilities among intensifying concerns about COVID-xix.

Update i (24/03/2020 4:59 pm)

As of Tuesday, March 24th, Uber has suspended some or all of its ride-hailing services in more three dozen cities across Bharat, including: Tirupati, Vijayawada, Visakhapatnam, Delhi NCR, Ahmedabad, Surat, Vadodara, Rajkot, Dhanbad, Jamshedpur, Ranchi, Bangalore, Mysore, Mangalore, Mumbai, Nagpur, Pune, Amritsar, Chandigarh, Jalandhar, Ludhiana, Ajmer, Jaipur, Jodhpur, Kota, Udaipur, Hyderabad, Agra, Bareilly, Kanpur, Lucknow, Prayagraj, Varanasi, Asansol, Durgapur and Siliguri.