Recovery tracker: Workplace visits at record high; air traffic declines

There were around 314,000 air passengers as of Sunday, September 4, based on a rolling seven-day average. It was around 331,000 as of Sunday, August 28

India’s workplace visits are now higher by nearly a third more than before the pandemic took hold.

The metric is 31 per cent higher than the baseline value during January and February 2020 before the Covid-19 pandemic became widespread and the government imposed a national lockdown. Search engine Google tracks mobility using anonymised location data. It tracks visits to various categories of places. Retail and recreation visits are 13.7 per cent higher.

The Indian Railways recorded an 8.7 per cent year-on-year increase in the quantity of goods it carried for the latest week compared to 7.3 per cent earlier. Freight