Press Coronavirus pandemic: mobility decreased strongly at Christmas and on New Year’s Eve 2020

Special evaluation of mobile phone data shows that people refrained from making long travels at Christmas and that mobility decreased markedly on New Year’s Eve

Press release No. 013 of 7 January 2021

WIESBADEN – Due to the coronavirus pandemic and the current restrictions to contain new infections, many people in Germany spent the Christmas holidays and New Year’s Eve 2020 in a different way than usual. A special evaluation of experimental mobility data of the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) shows that regulations and recommendations to reduce contacts strongly changed people’s behaviour at Christmas and on New Year’s Eve.

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