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Google has published COVID-19 Community Mobility Reports to provide insights into how people have adjusted their movement in response to policies aimed at combating COVID-19.
Google has published COVID-19 Community Mobility Reports to provide insights into how people have adjusted their movement in response to policies aimed at combating COVID-19.
The reports chart movement trends over time by geography, across different categories of places such as retail and recreation, groceries and pharmacies, parks, transit stations, workplaces, and residential.
Google uses the same aggregated, anonymized data from products such as Google Maps to create these reports. Data is intended to help public health officials make critical decisions to combat COVID-19.
Jamaica & several other Caribbean countries are included in the reports.
Jamaica & several other Caribbean countries are included in the reports.
Jamaica& #39;s community mobility data presented in the current report is at Mar 29th and is being updated daily.
#Jamaica movement trends to retail and recreation places
(restaurants, cafes, shopping centers, theme parks,
museums, libraries, and movie theaters)
is down 53% as at March 29
(Note: March 29 is before curfew was announced)
(restaurants, cafes, shopping centers, theme parks,
museums, libraries, and movie theaters)
is down 53% as at March 29
(Note: March 29 is before curfew was announced)
#Jamaica movement trends to grocery and pharmacy places
(grocery markets, food warehouses, farmers markets, specialty food shops, drug stores, and pharmacies.
is down 36% as at March 29
(Note: March 29 is before curfew was announced)
(grocery markets, food warehouses, farmers markets, specialty food shops, drug stores, and pharmacies.
is down 36% as at March 29
(Note: March 29 is before curfew was announced)
#Jamaica movement trends to parks
(national parks, public beaches, marinas, dog parks, plazas,
and public gardens.)
is down 50% as at March 29
(Note: March 29 is before curfew was announced)
(national parks, public beaches, marinas, dog parks, plazas,
and public gardens.)
is down 50% as at March 29
(Note: March 29 is before curfew was announced)
#Jamaica movement trends to transit stations
(public transport hubs such as subway, bus, and train stations)
is down 50% as at March 29
(Note: March 29 is before curfew was announced)
(public transport hubs such as subway, bus, and train stations)
is down 50% as at March 29
(Note: March 29 is before curfew was announced)
#Jamaica movement trends to workplaces is down 29% as at March 29
(Note: March 29 is before curfew was announced)
(Note: March 29 is before curfew was announced)
#Jamaica movement trends to residences is up 12% as at March 29
(Note: March 29 is before curfew was announced)
(Note: March 29 is before curfew was announced)
The reports show how visits and length of stay at different places change compared to a baseline. They calculated these changes using the same kind of aggregated and anonymized
data used to show popular times for places in Google Maps.
data used to show popular times for places in Google Maps.
Privacy info.
Insights in these reports are created with aggregated, anonymized sets of data from users who have turned on the Location History setting, which is off by default.
Insights in these reports are created with aggregated, anonymized sets of data from users who have turned on the Location History setting, which is off by default.
Access the reports for Jamaica and other countries here: https://www.google.com/covid19/mobility/">https://www.google.com/covid19/m...
I am glad Google is making this type of data available to support policy makers.
