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Was the 2 metre social distancing rule ever effective?

With the two-metre social distancing rule review imminent, Newsnight investigates whether there was evidence to support the measure in the first place.

Since the beginning of the Covid pandemic, much emphasis has been placed on the importance of the two-metre social distancing rule – supposedly the optimum distance at which we are less likely to contract the virus from others.

But, Newsnight has discovered that there are questions around the robustness of the evidence upon which the two-metre restriction is based.

Health Correspondent Deb Cohen reports.

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