International travel had the biggest impact on death rates for countries that were worst hit during the first wave of the coronavirus pandemic, a new study suggests.
Researchers from the University of Aberdeen examined a range of factors including border arrivals, population density, the percentage of people living in urban areas, age, average body mass index and smoking prevalence.
They found an increase of a million international arrivals was associated with a 3.4% rise in the mean daily increase in COVID-19 deaths during the first wave of the pandemic across the 37 worst-hit countries.
Tiberiu Pana, medical student and co-author of the study, said in a statement: “We found that international travel was the strongest predictor of mortality increase.
International travel has ‘biggest impact’ on Covid death rates
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International travel had the biggest impact on Covid death rates in the first wave, according to a new study,
Researchers from the University of Aberdeen studied a range of factors including border arrivals, population density, the population of people living in urban areas, BMI, age and smoking prevalence.
They found that an increase of 1m international arrivals correlated to roughly a 3.4 per cent rise in the mean daily increase in Covid deaths.
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A new study at Aberdeen University has suggested international travel had the biggest impact on death rates during the first wave of Coronavirus.
Research led by academics at the Granite City institution found an increase of a million international arrivals was associated with a 3.4% spike in mean daily Covid deaths.
Findings come after a dedicated team of professors, academics and scholarship students examined a range of factors including border arrivals, population density, the percentage of people living in urban areas and many others – which were then compared with the mortality rates across 37 of the worst hit countries.
Researchers found international travel to be a big factor in death rates during the first wave of the coronavirus pandemic INTERNATIONAL travel had the biggest impact on coronavirus death rates during the first wave of the pandemic, a study suggests. Researchers from the University of Aberdeen examined a range of Covid-19 risk factors including border arrivals, population density, percentage of people living in urban areas, average body mass index and smoking prevalence. They found an increase of a million international arrivals was associated with a 3.4% rise in the mean daily increase in Covid-19 deaths during the first wave of the pandemic across the 37 worst-hit countries.