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Eat Out to Help Out: crowded restaurants may have driven UK coronavirus spike – new findings

  • Written by Toby Phillips, Public Policy Researcher, University of Oxford

England is about to re-impose nationwide restrictions on gatherings to control the spread of COVID-19. This comes less than two weeks after the end of the government’s half-a-billion-pound scheme to get people to eat out in restaurants. Depending on how things go, we may look back on this scheme as the first step towards a second lockdown.

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