By Tara Rippin • Published: 14 Apr 2020 • 16:21
And the figures show that on Good Friday, April 10, 31.5 million phone owners did not move more than half a kilometre, according to the Ministry of Transport.
This is more than double the 14.6 million who didn’t move any substantial distance before the national lockdown.
The Ministry is using the positioning data from mobiles to study movements during the State of Alarm, and will continue to do so in the subsequent phase of de-escalation of confinement.
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Tara Rippin is a reporter for Spain’s largest English-speaking newspaper, Euro Weekly News, and is responsible for the Costa Blanca region. She has been in journalism for more than 20 years, having worked for local newspapers in the Midlands, UK, before relocating to Spain in 1990. Since arriving, the mother-of-one has made her home on the Costa Blanca, while spending 18 months at the EWN head office in Fuengirola on the Costa del Sol. She loves being part of a community that has a wonderful expat and Spanish mix, and strives to bring the latest and most relevant news to EWN’s loyal and valued readers.
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