Two-metre rule could be axed for pubs after Government leave off guidance for hospitality industry
BORIS Johnson suggested today that the UK's two metre rule could be lowered if the number of cases of coronavirus drops.
He told MPs in the House of Commons: "As the incidents of the disease comes down as I think, members of SAGE have could confirm, the statistical likelihood of becoming infected, no matter how close or far you are form someone who may or may not have coronavirus, comes down."He wants to cut it in the future, when it is safe to do so.
The risk of infection when people stand more than a metre away from the infected individual was found to be 3 per cent, and 13 per cent if within a metre. "You have to set that against all the other harms that are being done by the, the economic devastation that is wreaked by the two-metre rule, the deaths that will be attributable to the lockdown itself, and to the social and economic disruption that is causing."
Signalling it was only a matter of time before the Government reduced the 2 metre distancing rules to 1 metre, Mr Sharma told last night’s coronavirus press conference: "When it is safe to do so, we will see whether you can move to a shorter distance.” It comes after warnings two thirds of British pubs would have to stay closed if the 2 metre rule stayed in place.
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