South Lanarkshire has the worst record in the UK for ignoring social distancing rules at local beauty spots, according to a recent report.
As global communities respond to the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been an increasing emphasis on public health strategies, like social distancing measures, to slow the rate of transmission.
Google Health’s Community Mobility Reports aim to provide insights into what has changed in response to policies aimed at combating COVID-19.
The reports chart movement trends over time by geography, across different categories of places such as retail and recreation, groceries and pharmacies, parks, transit stations, workplaces, and residential.
They show how visits and length of stay at different places change compared to a baseline value for that day of the week.
Changes are calculated using the same kind of aggregated and anonymized data used to show popular times for places in Google Maps.
Despite having no beaches or national parks, South Lanarkshire fared worst in the UK for flocking to leisure parks amid the outbreak with a dismal average of -6 per cent against the UK baseline average of -52 per cent.
County figures in other categories were: Retail and Recreation -72 per cent; Grocery and Pharmacy -38 per cent; Transit Stations -57 per cent; Workplace -54 per cent and Residential +14 per cent.
