The Go To Travel campaign provides hefty discounts to users.- AFP
TOKYO (The Straits Times/ANN): The Japanese government on Tuesday (Dec 8) rubbished a scientific study from the country's top university that blamed its much-vaunted Go To Travel domestic tourism campaign for the country's unfurling third wave of Covid-19 infections.
The study by a team of researchers from the University of Tokyo and other institutions in Kanagawa and Osaka is the first to conclusively draw a direct link, arguing that those who used the campaign were twice as likely to exhibit Covid-19 symptoms.
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