Covid-19 Update Debate
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Baroness Barker
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Covid-19 Update
Baroness Barker Excerpts(4 years, 5 months ago)
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Lord Bethell (Con)
The change in the alert level is done in consultation with the CMO and it is his advice that the circumstances have not changed enough for us to move it. On the average travel time, most reasonable people would consider six-and-a-half miles a reasonable distance to travel for such an important test.
Baroness Barker (LD)
My Lords, why is it safer to allow six individuals from different households to meet together indoors, rather than limiting it to members of two families?
Lord Bethell (Con)
My Lords, the phenomenon we had noticed was that large groups of people, sometimes in pubs and sometimes in other congregations, would seemingly be from two households, but that the actual definition of “household” was proving to be extremely flexible in the minds of many people. Therefore, putting an integer into the formula makes it much clearer.