Recovery tracker: Retail and recreation visits go up, shows data

Fewer passengers on flights, vehicle registrations lag 2019 by a wider margin than before

More people stepped out for retail and recreation visits even as the number of daily Covid-19 cases slipped below the three-figure mark.
 
Retail and recreation visits were 8.9 per cent higher than before the pandemic took hold, shows mobility data from search engine Google. It tracks peoples’ movements using anonymised location data. This helps understand mobility trends across countries during the pandemic. Workplace visits also moved higher (see chart 1).
 
The number of Covid-19 cases over the last 24 hours was 913, according to a government bulletin on Monday.
 
Traffic congestion in major cities moved closerto normalcy,