{"id":25955,"date":"2020-06-23T19:58:52","date_gmt":"2020-06-23T18:58:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=25955"},"modified":"2020-06-23T19:58:54","modified_gmt":"2020-06-23T18:58:54","slug":"i-told-you-a-month-ago-that-the-2-metre-rule-would-be-revised","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=25955","title":{"rendered":"I told you a month ago that the 2 metre rule would be revised"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announced&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-53152416\">the 2m social-distancing rule in England is to be relaxed from 4 July<\/a>. From then, people should still try to maintain 2m distance, but new guidance of &#8220;one metre plus&#8221; will apply where that is not possible. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He also announced that pubs, restaurants, hotels and hairdressers could reopen from 4 July. Speaking at the last daily Downing Street press conference, government chief scientific adviser Patrick Vallance said the reduction in distancing was reasonable, but was not risk-free. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His comments were echoed by the chief medical officer for England, Chris Witty, who said people had to stick to the guidance to use &#8220;mitigation&#8221; &#8211; such as face coverings and not sitting face-to-face &#8211; when less than 2m from each other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In all the circumstances, I think that these changes are right as long as we follow the mitigation measures and are ready to reintroduce restrictions if the transmission rate rises.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A month ago, I did <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=25866\">a posting<\/a> looking at the variable international practice on physical distancing and suggesting that the British Government would review and revise the 2 metre rule,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announced&nbsp;the 2m social-distancing rule in England is to be relaxed from 4 July. From then, people should still try to maintain 2m distance, but new guidance of &#8220;one metre plus&#8221; will apply where that is not possible. He also announced that pubs, restaurants, hotels and hairdressers could reopen from 4 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-british-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25955"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25957,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25955\/revisions\/25957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}