Keep your distance
Tim Harford explores how can we avoid the coronavirus infection spreading, while getting on with life.
What difference does a metre make? The World Health Organisation recommends that people keep at least 1 metre apart from each other to stop the spread of Covid-19, but different countries have adopted different standards.
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends staying six feet apart - that鈥檚 just short of 2 metres; in the UK, the rule is 2 metres.
But all this has a big impact on the way businesses and societies get back to work. Tim Harford investigates the economic costs and conundrums of keeping our distance in a post-lockdown world.
How can we avoid infection spreading again, while getting on with life?
Producer: Ruth Alexander
(A cyclist rides along Oxford Street in London where barriers have been installed to widen the pavement to enable social distancing due to COVID-19, June 2020. Credit: Tolga Akmen/Getty images)
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