Recovery tracker: Mobility on the rise, vehicle registrations up 8.7%

Railways showed a moderation in freight growth numbers

People stepped out of their homes more than before with multiple mobility indicators showing a rise.

Retail and recreation visits were higher than the previous week, shows mobility data from search engine Google. It uses anonymised location data to track peoples’ movements during the pandemic. Movement is categorised by the kind of place visited. Workplace visits trended higher for the latest week. Visits to parks were near their highest since the pandemic began.

Indians registered more vehicles than before. There were a total of 395,022 vehicles registered during the latest week. This is 8.7 per cent higher than the same