International travel had major impact on first wave of coronavirus death rates, study finds
direct to your inboxInternational travel had the biggest impact on death rates for countries worst hit during the first wave of coronavirus, a 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 per cent 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 author of the study, said: “We found that international travel was the strongest predictor of mortality increase.“Our