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Retail, recreation visits slip over last week but remain higher than pre-Covid days

With confidence returning as daily Covid-19 cases slipped below 1,000, more people stepped out for retail and recreational activities in the latest week than they did in pre-pandemic days — though, their number was lower compared to last week.

While retail and recreation visits were 6.6 per cent higher than before the pandemic took hold, these were down week-on-week basis. In the previous week, these visits were up 9.1 per cent, shows mo­bility data from search eng­ine Google, which tracks peoples’ movements using anonymised location data. This helps understand mobility trends across countries during the pandemic. Workplace visits also increased (see