Google has released COVID-19 Community Mobility Reports

Google has released ‘COVID-19 Community Mobility Reports’. These reports aim to provide insights into what has changed in response to policies aimed at combating COVID-19. The reports cover 131 countries and chart movement trends over time by geography, across different categories of places such as retail and recreation, groceries and pharmacies, parks, transit stations, workplaces, and residential.

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The data is based on the 5-week period Jan 3–Feb 6, 2020 and the first few days of the lockdown period. There has been a dip of 77% in mobility trends for places like restaurants, cafes, shopping centres and movie theaters and a 65% drop at grocery markets, food warehouses, farmers’ markets and pharmacies. A 57% fall for places like public beaches and gardens, a 71% decline at public transport hubs and a 47% drop for places of work. However, the mobility trends in the places of residence category showed an increase of 22%. These reports will help support decisions about how to manage the COVID-19 pandemic.