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Scotland's Euro 2020 exit helped drive down covid infections, claims government adviser

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against England at Wembley. Daily covid case numbers in Scotland climbed to a peak of more than 4,000 per day in late June but have been steadily dropping since.

Public health officials previously estimated that at least 400 Tartan Army fans were at Wembley while infectious with covid for the crunch match against England on June 18.

Widely shared images on social media showed trains heading south out of Glasgow and Edinburgh were rammed with fans, with many paying no attention to social distancing or face covering rules - prompting fears the event was driving up case numbers.Mark Woolhouse, professor of infectious disease epidemiology at the University of Edinburgh, told the BBC there was some evidence the decline in cases may have been.

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