Police personnel walking down a path outside a locked church in Kochi on April 5.
| Photo Credit: H. Vibhu
In India, retail and recreational places saw the steepest fall in the presence of people
Due to restrictions, including the imposition of a lockdown in many countries, public mobility has declined sharply, a Google report finds. In India, retail and recreational places saw the steepest fall in the presence of people between February 16 and March 29 compared to the traffic between January 3 and February 6. Phone traffic from residences saw a considerable increase, indicating that more people were staying at home.
The charts use anonymised location data from phones to show how visits and length of stay at different places change compared to a baseline.
The baseline is the median value for the corresponding day of the week during the 5-week period (January 3–February 6)
Retail and recreation
Visits to resta