With the beginning of the summer, an increase in the Covid is, in many countries, has recorded 19 infections. A new study sheds light on how the novel Coronavirus in the region and between different countries spread. Therefore, limiting the international air traffic at the beginning of the pandemic has delayed the spread.

The results show that the spread between the countries in the early phase of the pandemic is mainly due to international flight connections and less by Arriving at common borders. In contrast to land travel, air transport of the Coronavirus allowed to skip in a very short time, countries and continents.

In addition to border closures, particularly the closure of international airports was, therefore, an important measure to delay the international spread of Covid-19. Occasionally, the results also show that countries that have reduced the air traffic later, have higher rates of infection. The study is published in the journal "Letters in Spatial and Resource Sciences" appeared.

Lockdown Maßtook a lot of lives saved

"With the declining acceptance of travel restrictions and the understandable concern about the economic consequences of drastic Lockdown-ends-measures, we want to support the decisions of the European and most of the other governments. The measures introduced seem to haben&quot a special role in the reduction of Covid-19-cases, the flattening of the curve, and the discharge of the health system and, ultimately, the rescue of human life played;, Tamás Krisztin by the International Institute for Applied systems analysis in Laxenburg, near Vienna, said.

The researchers recommend to check with the re-opening of cross-border air traffic carefully, and where the regions from which flights are allowed and to monitor them continuously.

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