iFood's response to the coronavirus Brazil 2020

As of March 14, 2020, iFood in Brazil announced that deliverers who tested positive for the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2), which causes COVID-19, or who went under quarantine would be financially assisted for 14 days. In order to do so, the food delivery app would use a fund created along with an NGO called Ação da Cidadania worth one million Brazilian reals. Meanwhile, Uber announced similar measures for its drivers and deliverers in Brazil.

Key figures on measures announced by iFood in Brazil during the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak as of March 2020

Indicator	Value
Duration of iFood's financial assistance for deliverers impacted by COVID-19 (in days)*	14
Worth of the fund iFood created for assisting deliverers impacted by COVID-19 (in million Brazilian reals)*	1
Total amount of tips given to iFood deliverers from March 22 to April 5, 2020 (in million Brazilian reals)**	0.5
Increase in total tips from March 22 to April 5, 2020, compared with March 1 to March 15, 2020 (in percentage)	176

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Release date

April 2020

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Brazil

Survey time period

March 2020

Supplementary notes

* Data regarding the forecast duration of financial assistance and worth of iFood's fund was retrieved from an earlier release.
** The source stated that more than 500,000 Brazilian reals had been paid to iFood deliverers.

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