Recovery tracker: Workplace visits near normal, highest since March 2020

Traffic congestion has also increased for major cities in the latest week

Crowds at the office are back to near-normal levels.

The number of workplace visits is within two per cent of the time before Covid-19 took hold in India, show’s search engine giant Google’s mobility data. Retail and recreation visits also showed an uptick.  Google’s mobility report makes use of anonymized location data to track how people are moving during the pandemic. The data is released with a lag. The latest is as of October 28 (see chart 1).

Traffic congestion has also increased accordingly, shows data from global location technology firm TomTom International. Mumbai’s traffic congestion is up for the