Anonymised and aggregated crowd level mobility data from mobile phones suggests that initial compliance with COVID-19 social distancing interventions was high and geographically consistent across the UK [version 1; peer review: 2 approved]

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 pattern...

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Main Authors: Benjamin Jeffrey, Caroline E. Walters, Kylie E. C. 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
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wellcome 2020-07-01
Series:Wellcome Open Research
Online Access:https://wellcomeopenresearch.org/articles/5-170/v1