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To the supermarket, to the pharmacy, to work ... the mobile phone travels with us wherever we go, despite the mobility restrictions imposed by the state of alarm to stop the expansion of the coronavirus.

It is common for mobile devices to have the Google Maps application installed. One of its utilities is the location history, where the sites visited by users are stored unless they have this option disabled. From this information, Google has produced its own reports on how mobility has varied. "The data is extracted from a sample of people, so it may not represent the behavior of the entire population," they warn in the documents they publish for each country.

In Spain, commuting to the workplace has fallen by 64% . Going to shops and entertainment venues has been done by 94%. Despite the images of massive purchases after the announcement of the confinement, during these days the presence in supermarkets and pharmacies has also decreased by 76%. We go 89% less to the parks, we use 88% less public transport.

Capture of the Google report for Spain on the evolution of the influx in supermarkets and pharmacies.

Last March, the Government tightened the containment measures, closing all "not essential" activities. One of the objectives is to reduce traffic by 85%. A day after the announcement of the new restrictions, the Interior Minister, Fernando Grande-Marlaska , reported that mobility between Monday and Friday had reduced by 70% and 80% on weekends.

Only one type of travel has grown compared to days without restrictions: those to the place of residence, which increased by 22%.

The Google document for Spain also shows in a broken down way how journeys have changed in each autonomous community. In the absence of a sample high enough to provide data from Ceuta and Melilla, the variations are very similar in all the territories.

According to these data, the Autonomous Communities that have most reduced commuting to work are the Canary Islands and the Valencian Community, with a drop of 66%, while in Galicia it was 59%.

The Valencian Community is the one that has largely stopped going to shops, with a drop of 95%, while in the Balearic Islands this drop has been 92%.

The influx in public transport stations has varied less in Asturias (-80%) than in areas such as Andalusia, Aragon, La Rioja, Navarra or the Valencian Community, where the variation is -90%.

The drop in visits to pharmacies and supermarkets, which can remain open, has also been less drastic in the Balearic Islands, with 68% fewer trips, than in the Region of Murcia, where they have fallen by 85%. In Spain, on average, the figure is -76% for this type of premises.

Finally, stopping going to the parks has been more noticeable in the Basque Country (-93%) than in Extremadura (-79%).

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