Don't miss a thing by getting the day's biggest stories sent direct to your inbox Football fans celebrating the Euros in the UK may have been 'an important factor' in driving up coronavirus rates, an expert has said.
Data from England, Scotland, and Wales shows an 'obvious surge' in case numbers starting around 10 days after the first games involving each nation, according to Paul Hunter, who is a professor in medicine at the University of East Anglia.
Case numbers had begun to decline, he said, however this was most noticeable in Wales and Scotland - both of whose teams are no longer in the tournament. READ MORE: Pressure mounts for UK Bank Holiday if England win Euro 2020 as petition gains more than 300,000 signatures Prof Hunter