ASSOCIATION BETWEEN COMMUNITY MOBILITY PATTERNS AND DAILY COVID-19 CASES: SOME PRELIMINARY EVIDENCE FROM PAKISTAN

Abstract

The objective of the study is to investigate the association between the community patterns and daily new COVID-19 cases in Pakistan. Statistical analysis of community mobility data from ‘Google community mobility reports’ and new daily COVID cases (per million population) data from ‘Our World in Data’ for Pakistan for a period of February 25, 2020 to January 6, 2021. We tried to examine the association and interlinkages between the reduced community mobility patterns with the new confirmed (officially reported) COVID-19 cases (per million population) using the scatter plot diagram and estimation of Pearson’s correlation coefficient.