Defence Secretary Ben Wallace has suggested the two-metre distancing rule could be relaxed to allow people to go back to work ahead of the coronavirus lockdown being lifted.
In an interview with Sky News, as the UK enters a seventh week of lockdown, Mr Wallace said: “You can look at shielding, you can look at how long you stay near people. "The two-metre rule reduces the possibility of infection by a certain amount of time. “If you halve that, it still keeps people away from being infected but for a lesser time.
The probability of being infected is much less. “I think there are options about how we can do it. You can wear PPE, that could be a possibility if you have to be in close proximity or indeed you could find other ways of doing