As global communities responded to COVID-19, we heard from public health officials that the same type of aggregated, anonymized insights we use in products such as Google Maps would be helpful as they made critical decisions to combat COVID-19. These Community Mobility Reports aimed to provide insights into what changed in response to policies aimed at combating COVID-19. The reports charted 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.

Explore the interactive maps showing the average delay and average speed on the Strategic Road Network and Local ‘A’ Roads in England, in 2020.

Additional http://bit.ly/COVID_Congestion_Analysis" class="govuk-link">Analysis on the impact of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic on the road journeys is also available. This story map contains charts and interactive maps for road journeys in England.

On the Strategic Road Network (SRN) for 2020, the average delay is estimated to be 6.7 seconds per vehicle per mile compared to speed limits travel times, a 29.5% decrease compared to 2019.

The average speed is estimated to be 61.8mph, 5.1% up on 2019.

In 2020, on average 42.1% of additional time was needed compared to speed limits travel times, on individual road sections of the SRN to ensure on time arrival. This is down 25.2 percentage points compared to 2019, so on average a lower proportion of additional time is required.

On local ‘A’ roads for 2020, the average delay is estimated to be 33.9 seconds per vehicle per mile compared to free flow travel times. This is a decrease of 22.8% on 2019.

The average speed is estimated to be 27.3 mph. This is an increase of 8.2% on 2019.

The outbreak of coronavirus (COVID-19) has had a marked impact on everyday life, including on congestion on the road network. As these data are affected by the coronavirus pandemic in the UK, caution should be taken when interpreting these statistics and comparing them with previous time periods. While values had previously been moving towards their pre-lockdown levels, this trend appears to have reversed in the months following September 2020.

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Dataset Name: Particulate Matter 10 - DEFRAData Owner: DEFRAContact: https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/department-for-environment-food-rural-affairs#org-contactsSource: DEFRASource URL: https://uk-air.defra.gov.uk/data/Uploaded: 22/02/23Update Frequency: Scale Threshold: N/AProjection : Irish GridFormat: Esri Feature Layer (Hosted) Vector PointsNotes: This is summarised data from DEFRA on levels of PM in the air for the years 2006 - 2018Please note: These background mapped data are specifically for LAQM purposes only. Please use them in conjunction with reading the Background Maps User Guide. The projections in the 2018 LAQM background maps are based on assumptions which were current before the Covid-19 outbreak in the UK. In consequence these maps do not reflect short or longer term impacts on emissions in 2020 and beyond resulting from behavioural change during the national or local lockdowns.Only the most recent mapped data should be used for new air quality assessments. Older data can continue to be used for research or on-going assessments.For more general interest in UK air quality mapping please visit the UK Ambient Air Quality Interactive Map

Dataset Name: Particulate Matter 10 - DEFRAData Owner: DEFRAContact: https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/department-for-environment-food-rural-affairs#org-contactsSource: DEFRASource URL: https://uk-air.defra.gov.uk/data/Uploaded: 22/02/23Update Frequency: Scale Threshold: N/AProjection : Irish GridFormat: Esri Feature Layer (Hosted) Vector PointsNotes: This is summarised data from DEFRA on levels of PM in the air for the years 2006 - 2018Please note: These background mapped data are specifically for LAQM purposes only. Please use them in conjunction with reading the Background Maps User Guide. The projections in the 2018 LAQM background maps are based on assumptions which were current before the Covid-19 outbreak in the UK. In consequence these maps do not reflect short or longer term impacts on emissions in 2020 and beyond resulting from behavioural change during the national or local lockdowns.Only the most recent mapped data should be used for new air quality assessments. Older data can continue to be used for research or on-going assessments.For more general interest in UK air quality mapping please visit the UK Ambient Air Quality Interactive Map

The National Obesity Audit (NOA) publication series presents a developing set of nationally agreed measures, with the overarching aim to provide a comprehensive picture of activity, access to services and health outcomes of patients using weight management services (WMS) across England. This will allow providers to track, benchmark and improve the quality of these services in future. This release includes data from 2 sources, Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) for Tier 4 WMS, and the Community Services Data Set (CSDS) for Tier 2 and Tier 3 WMS. Disruption relating to the coronavirus illness (COVID-19) would seem to have affected the quality and coverage of some of our statistics, such as an increase in non-submissions for some datasets. We have also seen some different patterns in the submitted data. For example, fewer patients are being admitted to and discharged from hospital. Therefore, data should be interpreted with care over the COVID-19 period.

As of January 18, 2023, Portugal had the highest COVID-19 vaccination rate in Europe having administered 272.78 doses per 100 people in the country, while Malta had administered 258.49 doses per 100. The UK was the first country in Europe to approve the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine for widespread use and began inoculations on December 8, 2020, and so far have administered 224.04 doses per 100. At the latest data, Belgium had carried out 253.89 doses of vaccines per 100 population. Russia became the first country in the world to authorize a vaccine - named Sputnik V - for use in the fight against COVID-19 in August 2020. As of August 4, 2022, Russia had administered 127.3 doses per 100 people in the country.

The seven-day rate of cases across Europe shows an ongoing perspective of which countries are worst affected by the virus relative to their population. For further information about the coronavirus pandemic, please visit our dedicated Facts and Figures page.