'Substantial increase' in number of social visits to households Professor Pete Lunn of the ESRI's Behavioral Research Unit told today’s briefing that there has been "a substantial increase" in the number of people engaging in social visits to people’s houses.
Figures from the ESRI’s Social Activity Measure survey showed that the number of adults engaging in such visits jumped from 5% to 11.5% from the end of January to the second week of March.
He said while this was a minority of the population, it "translates to an increase every single day of between 150,000 and 250,000 adults".
Prof Lunn said that this coincides very closely with the stalling in the decline in the number of case numbers. Marginal rise in R number from 5 April could mean