The two-metre social distancing rule could be relaxed, with a review due within days. Pubs could be patrolled to ensure social-distancing measures are enforced under plans to ease the lockdown for the hospitality sector. A scientist advising the Government's coronavirus response said it would now be reasonable to reduce the two-metre rule to just one with "various caveats and other precautions". Conservative MP Sir Iain Duncan Smith said the two-metre distancing rule should be reduced before companies start "calling it a day" and cutting jobs. And in Northern Ireland, most pupils are set for a return to education in the autumn after ministers agreed to cut the social distancing measure to one metre.

Source: Daily Mirror June 20, 2020 08:41 UTC