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Al Jazeera English published this video item, entitled “Coronavirus leaves London’s black cabs in ‘taxi graveyards’” – below is their description.
London’s famous black cabs are an international icon, but the coronavirus lockdown has seen the UK capital empty of people and demand for taxis has collapsed. Many cab drivers have handed back their car keys and have given up, and the sorry sight of so-called “taxi graveyards” have started appearing around the capital. Al Jazeera’s Paul Brennan reports from Essex, UK. –
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