Recovery tracker: Workplace attendance continues to rise despite Omicron

Drop in retail and recreation visits, essential shopping

The number of people going to work continued to increase after the Omicron announcement.

The seven-day moving average of workplace visits in India was within 2.9 per cent of pre-Covid times for the latest week. It was 5.9 below pre-Covid times on November 25, when the new Covid-19 variant was announced to the world. The numbers are based on anonymised location data from search engine giant Google. It tracks visits to various categories of places as a way of keeping track of how people are moving during the pandemic. The numbers are released with a lag. The latest is as