Is one metre or two safe for physical distancing from Covid-19?

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Official advice says two but others say one, though the risk of spreading the virus rises

, said that two metres “keeps you safe 99 per cent of the time but you can greatly reduce risk even at one metre because 70 per cent of the droplets will stick within one metre.”The European Centre for Disease Control still advises people to maintain a distance of two metres, while in the US, the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention advises people to stay “at least six feet” - about two metres - apart.

” Dr Cillian de Gascun, chairman of the group and director of the UCD’s National Virus Reference Laboratory, said that in some circumstances such as in healthcare and domestic settings where it is not possible or practical to maintain two metres distance “the recommendation is that at least one metre but ideally two metres are maintained between people, especially in the context of keeping distance from symptomatic individuals.

 

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Currently, many people who think they are 2m apart are actually about 1m. If the advice is reduced to 1m then people will distance by 0m.

people should do as they fell fit, and stop listening to these idiots.

change it to 1 meter & it means nothing. many people not social distancing as it is.

No one gives a flaming monkey's

Ask our beloved leader......

Can u show me a metre ?

If you cough or sneeze on eachother, then it's not! Otherwise carry-on. That's the real true info the papers should be telling people not the crap from the people handing them kickbacks to go with the scaremongering campaign!

2 meeters or more

If 1m was acceptable he would of used 1 m from the beginning. No it's not. Hes a 🤡 and a hypocrite

Your only bullshitting with this because the 🤡 got caught

Ask Leo, we know you have a direct line to him

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