Intermediate domestic travel bans can lead to increase in Covid-19 cases, reveals study  

A study that uses data from India and five other countries shows that some of the domestic travel restrictions in large cities with vulnerable migrant populations could lead to an increase in Covid-19 cases.

A new study that uses data from India and five other countries shows that some of the domestic travel restrictions in large cities with vulnerable migrant populations could lead to increased Covid-19 cases. The working paper put out by the researchers from the Becker Friedman Institute for Economics at the University of Chicago suggests that although very short and long restrictions limit the spread of disease, moderately lengthy restrictions substantially increase infections. The paper has used one of the widely used compartmental models in epidemiology that mimics a real-world scenario in many developing countries with empirical data from India, China, Indonesia, etc.