Recovery tracker: Retail and recreation visits at highest since March 2020

Traffic congestion was also up during the week

There were more people visiting retail and recreation spots last week than at any point since the March 2020 national lockdown.

Retail and recreation visits hit 90.7 per cent of pre-Covid levels, shows mobility data from search engine giant Google. It uses anonymised location data to track how people have been moving since the Covid-19 pandemic began to disrupt global life in early 2020.  The latest Google data as of October 05 shows that the current level of retail and recreation visits is the highest since March 18, 2020; when it had dipped 8.7 per cent below normal. Workplace visits