作者
Benjamin Jeffrey, Caroline E Walters, Kylie EC Ainslie, Oliver Eales, Constanze Ciavarella, Sangeeta Bhatia, Sarah Hayes, Marc Baguelin, Adhiratha Boonyasiri, Nicholas F Brazeau, Gina Cuomo-Dannenburg, Richard G FitzJohn, Katy Gaythorpe, William Green, Natsuko Imai, Thomas A Mellan, Swapnil Mishra, Pierre Nouvellet, H Juliette T Unwin, Robert Verity, Michaela Vollmer, Charles Whittaker, Neil M Ferguson, Christl A Donnelly, Steven Riley
发表日期
2020
期刊
Wellcome Open Research
卷号
5
出版商
The Wellcome Trust
简介
Background: Since early March 2020, the COVID-19 epidemic across the United Kingdom has led to a range of social distancing policies, which have resulted in reduced mobility across different regions. Crowd level data on mobile phone usage can be used as a proxy for actual population mobility patterns and provide a way of quantifying the impact of social distancing measures on changes in mobility.
Methods: Here, we use two mobile phone-based datasets (anonymised and aggregated crowd level data from O2 and from the Facebook app on mobile phones) to assess changes in average mobility, both overall and broken down into high and low population density areas, and changes in the distribution of journey lengths.
Results: We show that there was a substantial overall reduction in mobility, with the most rapid decline on the 24th March 2020, the day after the Prime Minister’s announcement of an enforced …
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