DORSET residents are remaining indoors during the third national lockdown, according to data collected by Google.

On January 8, the company released its latest Covid-19 Community Mobility Report which details how people in the county are responding to the government's social distancing guidance.

Retail and recreation, supermarket and pharmacy, parks, public transport, workplaces and residential are all included in this data.

The latest report shows a decrease in all areas, except places of residence.

Google's most recent findings for Dorset are as follows:

• Residential: A mobility increase of 20 per cent compared to the baseline.

People are being urged to remain at home during the current lockdown, except when going out for their daily exercise or essential purposes such as food shopping and work (if unable to work from home).

• Retail and recreation: Mobility is down by 64 per cent compared to the baseline.

This includes restaurants, shopping centres, museums, libraries and more.

Non-essential retail, such as the above, and hospitality venues, sport facilities and accommodation remain closed during the lockdown.

The reduction in mobility in these areas can be attributed to the reduced number of open and available retail and recreation spaces.

• Supermarket and pharmacy: A 22 per cent decease compared to the baseline.

Guidance from the government details how only essential retail such as food shops, supermarkets, pharmacies, garden centres, building merchants and suppliers of building products and off-licences can remain open.

However, people are being urged to stay in their homes, so visits to these places in Dorset have reduced.

• Parks: This shows a less significant decrease of 15 per cent compared to the baseline.

Public beaches and public gardens also come under this category.

Current government guidance for exercising states that it can done once a day and only within your local area.

You can exercise in a public outdoor space such as parks, beaches, countryside accessible to the public, forests and public gardens.

• Public transport: Mobility is down by 57 per cent compared to the baseline.

To minimise the risk of infection and because the majority of people are staying at home, public transport in Dorset is not being frequently used.

• Workplaces: Mobility has seen a decrease of 48 per cent compared to the baseline.

Due to the majority of people working from home, as instructed by government guidance, workplaces are not being frequented.

The baseline is the median value, and the report shows trends over several weeks, with the most recent data representing approximately two to three days before the report’s publication date.