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Social distancing will also continue, whenever possible, and stores and bank branches are expected to consider Ikea-style one-way flow systems, limit the number of customers in a store at any given time, and use screens to create barriers between stores. people.
Customers have yet to stay two meters away, and the guidelines suggest creating “social distancing champions” to demonstrate best practices.
The written guide to social distancing remains quite strict for non-administrative workers. For example, the guidance for couriers and truck drivers suggests finding alternatives to two-person delivery, and construction sites and farms should be separated into “zones” of different groups of workers with staggered break times.
Social distancing will also be applied in public transport and will be key to limit possible infections.
On Saturday, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said that even if the UK transport network operated at full capacity, the two-meter social distance rule would mean that only one in 10 passengers would be able to travel.
He said the government was working with technology companies to develop applications that would allow people to “find out what parts of the transportation network are overcrowded and avoid them” to maintain social distancing after the shutdown.
Looking to the future
On April 22, medical director Professor Chris Whitty told the country to prepare for another year of “disruptive” measures. He warned that ministers would have to devise the “optimal combination” of social distancing to control the virus until a vaccine is available.
But a possible scenario that has arisen, once the number of cases, deaths and cases has begun to decrease dramatically, is intermittent social distancing.
Under this strategy, some measures of social distancing would continue for much of the year, with intermediate breaks in which life can return to normal. For example, social distancing could be modified at the regional level to give people a break from draconian restrictions.
The Influenza Pandemic Modeling Scientific Group, which feeds on the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage), has proposed that parts of the country could enjoy greater freedoms for six months at a time, before returning to closure.
