Jabs centre was not socially distanced

MY experience, on the streets of Bath, is that most people have little idea of what two-metre distance is.

Two metres is the minimum distance I should be from any other person outside my household or bubble, indoors or in the open air.

That we in Britain have one of the world’s highest number of fatalities per head of population is no surprise if we observe how people behave.

But attending the NHS

Vaccination Centre in the Pavilion in Bath was an unexpected surprise. My expectation was that here I would experience how “social distancing” should be done.

I did not have a measuring tape but as a qualified architect I have a pretty accurate perception of distances. The three rows of chairs set out for individuals to rest on after receiving their jab were not two metres apart! They were more like one and a half metres apart.

As I took this in, a manager was giving instructions to three helpers about to go for their lunch break.

The manager was not two metres away from his three colleagues, he was more like a metre away and the three helpers were more like 30 centimetres from each other. I was standing waiting to go into my allocated cubicle to have my jab and staff, going about their business, were rarely the full two metres away from one another!

So, after I had my vaccination, I mentioned my concerns. The vaccine administrator slipped out for a moment and returned with another lady whom she introduced