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James Gallagher, health correspondent is here.

Hello, hi Adam, and he's exactly two meters away

as we always are in the studio.

And two meters has become a bit of a hot topic today

because the Prime Minister was asked about it

at the liaison committee, the kind of the super committee of MPs.

And it sounds like he would quite like it to go down.

I can not only make that commitment great I can tell you that I have already done just

that so I hope we'll make progress. The thing about the the two meter rule is obviously not

every country is using the two meter rule so it's not as though it's some kind of

international standard that every country is using two meters. But neither is it completely

safe. I always can think of it as a little bit like how fast you're driving down the motorway.

There's risk whether you're driving at 70 miles an hour.

One of them is safer than the other and that's the difference between being a meter in a

part and two meters apart. One is safer than the other. The question is how safe do you need to be and as there's

less and less virus around if test and trace program which we're going to talk

about becomes more important you know maybe you're going to come into contact

with less virus than then the argument for reducing

that social distancing distance how many times can say distance in one sentence there's another

distance another one keeps on going maybe it can come down in the future, but it's worth roaming.

This is not the first time Sage has looked at the two-meter rule.

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