People Have Stopped Taking Walks
It’s tough to go anywhere when there’s nowhere to go.
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Apple Inc. has been tracking the world’s movements before and during the Covid-19 pandemic by analyzing direction requests sent to Apple Maps.
Charted below are requests for walking directions in various countries. They illustrate which places locked down early (Hong Kong); which locked down least (Sweden); which have been most strict (France, Italy); and which are showing early signs of easing up (New Zealand, Germany).