JANUARY 2022 21 MONTHLY STATISTICAL BULLETIN Higher mobility of the population at Christmas and NewYear's Eve when compared to the same period of the previous year In 2021, there was, in general, higher mobility of the population than in 2020 and, in this context, the higher levels of mobility in the period around Christmas 2021 and New Year's Eve are particularly noteworthy when compared to the same period of the previous year. The proportion of the population that stayed at home between the 20th of December 2021 and the 10th of January 2022 was lower than in the same period one year before: 20.7% and 23.6%, respectively. This increasedmobilitymust be put into perspective in the set of measures applied to fight the pandemic and also in the vaccination levels of the population (the vaccination process started on the 27th of December 2020 and by the 9th of October 2021 85% of the population was fully vaccinated). It should be noted that on the 25th of December 2021 and the 1st of January 2022 the proportion of the population staying at home was lower than that observed on the 25th of December 2020 and the 1st of January 2021. The differences in mobility levels between 2021 and 2020 over the holiday season become even more clear when the indicator referring to the proportion of the population who stayed at home is put into context against the 14-day cumulative incidence rate of new COVID-19 cases. The incidence rate in the period between the 20th of December 2021 and the 10th of January 2022 was always higher than the incidence rate in the same period of the previous year - also noting, in 2021, a higher growth trend than in 2020. The proportion of the population that stayed at home in comparison with the incidence rate was, in 2021, always lower than in 2020. However, contextualizing the proportion of the population that stayed at home relative to recorded COVID-19 deaths instead suggests that mobility levels in the 2020 holiday season were higher than in 2021. More information is available at: COVID-19 and population mobility – December 2021/January 2022 (14 January 2022) 0 20 40 60 80 Maximum Average Minimum Moving average (7 days) % State of Emergency State of Emergency de 15 January: New confinement 22 January: Closing of schools State of Calamity State of Con�ngency State of Alert State of Calamity State of Calamity State of Alert State of Con�ngency apr apr may may aug aug sep sep oct oct dec dec Proportion of population that “stayed at home” between March 1, 2020 and January 10, 2022 – minimum, average and NUTS III maximums
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