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Health Secretary Matt Hancock has urged people to, "stay at home and reduce all social contact that is not absolutely necessary".But are people acting on his advice and how does their behaviour compare with previous lockdowns?
What does the data show?
People are leaving their homes more than during the first days of the March lockdown, according to data from several sources.
Apple and Google collect "mobility data", which is pulled together by recording the location histories on people's mobile devices. They then take that data and compare how different it is to a national "baseline" established in early 2020, before the pandemic started.