Coronavirus: Japan cases surged after Go To Travel campaign began, study finds

The number of travel-associated coronavirus cases in Japan increased by nearly seven times after the government began a subsidy programme aimed at promoting domestic tourism in July, a recent study found.“Although the second epidemic wave in Japan had begun to decline by mid-August, enhanced domestic tourism may have contributed to increasing travel-associated Covid-19 cases,” Kyoto University researchers Hiroshi Nishiura and Asami Anzai said in the study, published on Thursday in the Journal…

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