Reducing social distancing to one metre would double risk of coronavirus infection, study suggests

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Research comes amid calls from hospitality and leisure sector for UK to ease distancing guidelines

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Facts check please i made a study the other day and found it is safe to open the pub and my local chip shop

No it doesn't.

no shit!

redecing secial destence te ene metre wede deble risk ef cerena stedy seggests

Be careful, human

Most countries have one metre in place. One metre is safe.

I've always said there's a lot of money to be made in 'research'. How much did the study cost? Most twitter users could have told you that! Now get back to real work... find us a vaccine for Covid. You've already had billions of £'s for that reason lol

Seriously Noted!

nothing in the report suggest we use 2m you did that in the story so 1.5 m is okay

so are meeters and gretahs you're soul, be objective man this government is a sham

And more than double my enjoyment of life right now. 🤷‍♂️

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