Increased mobility in Tamil Nadu in lockdown 3.0, says IIT study

NEW DELHI: Days before Koyambedu market, a wholesale hub in Chennai, emerged as a major hotspot leading to a spike of over 200 new Covid-19 cases, a team of researchers at IIT-Madras had submitted reports to state government officials based on their work on mobility data mapped from Facebook users. This was then integrated with data from the crowdsourced portal of covid19india.org.

These reports, which track lockdown violations and mass movements in the state, shared from March 22 with the state government officials, show how lockdown 3.0 is witnessing increased mobility, particularly in Chennai, especially during weekends.