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‘Eat out to help out’ offer contributed to UK second COVID wave – study – Marketscreener.com

The British government’s Eat out to help out discount scheme to boost spending at restaurants, cafes and pubs over the summer helped spread the coronavirus and…

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For the month of August, the government offered diners up a 50% discount of up to 10 pounds ($13.03) per head on meals between Mondays and Wednesdays to kick-start the economy and encourage people to spend money again after the pandemic lockdown.
Between 8% and 17% of newly detected infection clusters could be linked to the scheme during that period, according to the study by the University of Warwick. Areas where there was a high uptake of the scheme saw an increase in new infections about a week…

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