Health
‘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…
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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