US election swing states: Can North Carolina turn blue? The reason cities and other areas under local restrictions are not recording sharper drops in mobility may ultimately be due to lockdown fatigue as well as confusion about the rules.

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Note that Google’s coverage is incomplete for some destinations – such as retail and recreation – due to the company changing the way it reports the figures. Get the New Statesman's Morning Call email. So how much are local restrictions actually affecting behaviour? By Patrick Scott, Josh Rayman and Georges Corbineau.

Most of the restrictions relate to the mixing of households indoors, including in pubs and restaurants.

But Blackpool has also experienced the biggest rise in city-centre footfall, according to Centre for Cities data, with numbers 41.4 per cent higher than before the Covid-19 outbreak.

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Twilight of the Union. /*-->*/. It suggests Brits were moving to, from and around their homes just as much in areas under local restrictions as they were in areas under national restrictions only, compared to a baseline set at the start of the year. A New Statesman analysis found that there was almost no difference in the level of movement to and from either workplaces or homes when comparing areas under local restrictions to those under national restrictions only. To find out, we examined anonymised mobile phone tracking data from Google, which shows how visits and length of stay at different places have changed compared to the period 3 January-6 February, as well as high-street recovery data from the Centre for Cities. The graphic below shows the change in mobility by destination type during the last week of September compared to pre-pandemic levels.

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[CDATA[/* >*/. City centres with local restrictions also didn’t register a particularly large drop in footfall in the last week of September compared to areas that are under fewer restrictions. A further point worth considering is that local lockdowns were never supposed to stop movement, and never expected to reduce new Covid-19 cases entirely and immediately. /*-->*/.

As Covid-19 cases continue to rise in the UK, millions of people have entered local lockdown. Founded as a weekly review of politics and literature on 12 April 1913, it was connected then with Sidney and Beatrice Webb and other leading members of the socialist Fabian Society, such as George Bernard Shaw, who was a founding director. The graphic below shows levels of “residential” mobility during the last week of September. Donald Trump remains committed to Amy Coney Barrett as hearings approach, The New Statesman’s hyperlocal Covid-19 tracker, How Boris Johnson left the UK perilously unprepared for a second wave of Covid-19, Freedom of information: how your right to know is being quietly removed, The new Covid-19 tier system doesn’t fix the government’s real problem. [CDATA[/* >

A report from the Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government found that the government’s handling of the Leicester lockdown led to “some confusion about the nature of the restrictions... what the precise requirements were, the timing of commencement of the measures and the geographical reach”, which has led to a “lack of confidence in and questioning of the decision”. But infection rates have continued to soar in many areas that are ostensibly “locked down”.

As Covid-19 cases continue to rise in the UK, millions of people have entered local lockdown. The New Statesman is a British political and cultural magazine published in London. At present, around a third of Britons live under some form of tighter restrictions.

For further Information please contact our Subscriptions Helpdesk on 0808 284 9422 OR email: digital.subscriptions@newstatesman.co.uk. People in most areas under strict Covid restrictions are only marginally less likely to go to pubs, restaurants and supermarkets.

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