Recovery tracker: Surge in workplace attendance up despite rising cases

Power generation, vehicle registrations decline, recreation visits down

More employers visited their workplaces last week despite elevated levels of Covid-19 cases.

The total number of cases was 16,135 according to a government release on Monday, down 5.5 per cent from a week ago.

Workplace visits are now 22.3 per cent above what was seen in a baseline period for 2020 before Covid-19 took hold. This is higher than the 21 per cent rise seen a week ago, shows mobility data from search engine Google, which uses anonymised location data to track how people are moving during the pandemic. However, retail & recreation and grocery & pharmacy visits were