In which cities are people staying home? We dug into data from Google to show where people are avoiding public places—and where they soon might
look like stills from “28 Days Later”, a post-apocalyptic film. In St Mark’s Square in Venice, pigeons outnumber tourists. Madrid is closing prestigious art museums, including the Prado and the Reina Sofía. Beijing’s Forbidden City has been shut for weeks. Football matches are being played in front of empty stands.
By tracking mobile phones, Google constantly estimates how busy places are relative to historical averages. For example, Rome’s central train station, Termini, is typically most crowded at 9am on Fridays. Google assigns this peak level a value of 100, and expresses footfall at other times as a share of this maximum. The average value throughout the week at Termini is 30.
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