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More of the country's leading businesses from a variety of industries have pledged their support for the UK's world-leading COVID-19 vaccination programme by offering incentives to vaccinated customers.
Asda, lastminute.com, National Express, FREE NOW taxis and Better leisure centres will be offering discounts to people who get a COVID-19 vaccine, joining the national effort to protect the country as it continues its cautious return to normality.
The companies will be joining Uber, Bolt and Deliveroo, which committed last month to backing the vaccination programme by providing exclusive offers to those who have received a jab.
The new businesses and rewards will include:
- Asda - will offer £10 vouchers for their clothing brand George to 18 to 30 year olds who spend over £20. These will be offered at the vaccine pop-up clinics located in Old Kent Road in London, Watford & Birmingham;
- lastminute.com - will offer over-18s £30 gift cards towards holidays abroad to all young people getting vaccinated through their website;
- Better leisure centres - will offer over 16s a £10 voucher to use on any Better membership and a free three-day pass at any of their 235 leisure facilities across the UK;
- FREE NOW - will provide up to £1 million in free taxi rides for over-18s attending their vaccine appointment each way from today [Sunday 15 August] until the end of September; and
- National Express Buses (Midlands) - will offer 1,000 people 5-day unlimited travel saver tickets which can be used within 90 days. Tickets can be claimed by sharing vaccine booking references in the company's app.
Deliveroo has also revealed
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