“Movements in the Easter weekend collapse. The decline was accused in all Italian regions, following the ordinance of the Ministry of Health which placed Italy in the red zone during the Easter weekend to contain infections from Covid-19. However, in no region there has been a decrease in mobility comparable to the previous Lockdown of March-May 2020, so much so that compared to that period the movements have almost doubled throughout the national territory “. ‘City Analytics – Mobility Map’, the solution by Enel X and HERE Technologies which, starting from the analysis of Big Data, estimates, among others, the variation in movements and kilometers traveled by citizens on the national, regional, provincial and municipal.
Overall, all regions recorded a sharp decline in travel compared to the pre-Covid period (ranging from -50% to -26%) and compared to the same day of the previous week (-45% to -17%). Campania, then, in the Easter weekend recorded the highest increase in travel compared to the period March / May 2020 with a + 220%. On Easter Monday (April 5), the data collected shows that all the regions taken into consideration, compared to the average value of the movements recorded during the Monday of the lockdown period, significantly reduced the movements except for Puglia which records a + 2% and Campania +44 percent. Among the regions that went from orange to red, the figure of Sicily stands out, where citizens have reduced their movements almost double compared to the previous week, i.e. by 45%, followed by the inhabitants of Lazio, where traffic reached -31. percent.
As for the regions that remained in the red zone, Emilia Romagna is confirmed as the most loyal, with -36% of trips recorded compared to the week before, followed by Veneto (-34%), Lombardy (-30%), Campania (-23%), Piedmont (-23%) and Puglia (-17%). The city that moved the least was Milan, with -35% of the trips. On the other hand, the decrease in traffic in Rome (-29%) and Naples (-22%) was more contained “.