12 Jul 2021

They think it’s all over: Euro2020 and Covid

Sorry to be a downer – but while the football is now over – Covid definitely is not – and is a month of sporting socials to blame?

Sorry to be a downer – but while the football is now over – Covid definitely is not – and is a month of sporting socials to blame?

For nearly three months, cases were declining across Europe. But not anymore. The risk of a new wave on the continent is growing.

Yet England is set to ditch masks and social distancing and will allow full capacity football matches.

That’s despite Japan banning spectators from most events at this summer’s Olympics – and despite recent data showing that men in England have been more likely to test positive for Covid recently because they’ve been watching the football together

So was Euro2020 behind some of the rising cases in the last few weeks in Europe and what does the data say about how risky large-scale events are when it comes to Covid.

 

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