There has been a surge in the number of people going to parks as lockdown eased, government data showed tonight.
Footfall in UK parks shot up in recent days and is now higher than it was on some days just before the lockdown began on March 23.
More people also went to grocery shops and pharmacies in recent days, as well as stations - but the rises were far less dramatic.
Overall, mobility data showed park use has gone from down 24% since late February a week ago, to up 4%, on a seven-day rolling average.
It comes after lockdown was eased in England from Wednesday this week. And it is set to rise further on a sunny weekend.
Health Secretary Matt Hancock said: "This weekend with the good weather and the new rules I hope people can enjoy being outside.
"But please stick to the rules, keep an eye on your family, and don't take risks."
Jenny Harries, the Deputy Chief Medical Officer, said there is a "rise in the use of parks coming forward now. We anticipate that within social distancing measures, that will increase."
But she added: "People are only going out in the main for permitted activities."
Since Wednesday, people in England can now exercise unlimited times per day and sit in the park or another open space.
One person may now also meet one person from another household - as long as the group is only two people and they stay two metres apart.
But restrictions remain in Scotland and Wales - and the government is embroiled in a row over its plans to ease more lockdown restrictions from June 1.
Teaching unions say the date is too early to send the first children back to primary schools in England.
Liverpool has ordered schools to defy the government and stay shut to most pupils.
Adding to jitters among critics the Government's advisory group has warned the rate of coronavirus infection has risen - and could now be close to one.
The Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE) said the UK reproduction number for the coronavirus is between 0.7 and one.
At the last estimate it stood between 0.5 and 0.9.
If the reproduction number (R) is higher than one, then the number of Covid-19 cases will being to explode exponentially across the UK.
If R is lower than one, then the outbreak will slowly shrink.
However, SAGE stressed the data on R dates back three weeks - and the number of cases in care homes and hospitals may account for the figure.
SAGE data also shows one in every 370 people in England had Covid-19 at some point between April 27 and May 10, the government believes.
Tonight's figures showed 33,998 people have now died of coronavirus in the UK - an increase of 384 since yesterday.
But Health Secretary Matt Hancock tonight insisted “we are past the peak of this virus".
It came as it emerged that more than 12,500 people living in care homes have now died with Covid-19, with the majority dying in their care home.
Data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) reveals that just over one in four of all deaths of care home residents in England and Wales between March 2 and May 1 involved Covid-19.
Of 45,899 care home residents who died during this period, 27% (12,526) had Covid-19 mentioned on their death certificate.
Some 9,039 (72%) of the deaths occurred within a care home and 27% were in hospital.
