With England’s coronavirus lockdown measures easing, thousands of Brits are expected to return to work this week. While advice from the UK government is to maintain a two metre distance between yourself and others, this is easier said than done in many workplaces.
Now, one expert has warned that spending just a few seconds at a one metre distance from a colleague could equate to around an hour of being two metres away from the same person, according to the Daily Telegraph.
Andrew Curran, chief scientific adviser at the Health and Safety Executive, said: “If the exposure at a distance of less than two metres is going to be for a short period of time, you manage the risk in the context of duration and orientation. “There is some physics in
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