Recovery tracker: Spike in mobility, traffic pointers as people go out more

Other weekly economic indicators also show signs of gains

People are leaving their houses more frequently amid a fall in reported cases.

Mobility and traffic indicators have been showing signs of revival. The number of Covid-19 cases reported daily has come down to about 100,000. It had exceeded 400,000 in the beginning of May.

Residential time spent has come down, even as workplace visits moved higher according to mobility data that search engine Google collects. The company looks at the places where people are going during the pandemic by category, based on anonymised location data.  It is released with a slight lag. The latest is as of June 2