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‘They deserve more credit’: Britain’s south Asian taxi drivers on Covid frontline – The Guardian

Many minicab workers are used to racism and danger, but worked through the last year facing a new, invisible threat

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HealthMany minicab workers are used to racism and danger, but worked through the last year facing a new, invisible threat
Shaz Saleem first started helping out at his fathers taxi firm when he was 13, manning the phones and processing fares for the drivers. Even as a child he could see it was not an easy job, but it was a trade that allowed Pakistani men, some of them very recent immigrants to the UK with few qualifications, to earn a living.
Over the years there have been many challenges, he says,…

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