What is Social Distancing?

Social distancing is a non-pharmaceutical infection prevention and control intervention implemented to avoid/decrease contact between those who are infected with a disease causing pathogen and those who are not, so as to stop or slow down the rate and extent of disease transmission in a community. This eventually leads to decrease in spread, morbidity and mortality due to the disease.

In public health, social distancing, also called physical distancing, is a set of non-pharmaceutical interventions or measures intended to prevent the spread of a contagious disease by maintaining a physical distance between people and reducing the number of times people come into close contact with each other. It typically involves keeping a certain distance from others (the distance specified may differ from time to time and country to country) and avoiding gathering together in large groups. By reducing the probability that a given uninfected person will come into physical contact with an infected person, the disease transmission can be suppressed, resulting in fewer deaths. The measures are used in combination with good respiratory hygiene and hand washing by a population. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the World Health Organization (WHO) suggested favouring the term “physical distancing” as opposed to “social distancing”, in keeping with the fact that it is a physical distance which prevents transmission; people can remain socially connected via technology. To slow down the spread of infectious diseases and avoid overburdening healthcare systems, particularly during a pandemic, several social-distancing measures are used, including the closing of schools and workplaces, isolation, quarantine, restricting the movement of people and the cancellation of mass gatherings

Social distancing is maintained to stop the spread of virus and infections. You should avoid close contact with anyone you do not live with. That is called social distancing. It means avoiding crowded, public places where close contact with others is likely. It leads to cancelling events and gathering of more than 10 people and closing shops, restaurants and bars. It is essential way to slow down the spread of virus among each other. It is important that you follow social distancing recommendations in your community, weather you’re in one of the high-risk group or not. 

Why Social Distancing is important?

Social distancing is important because:

• It helps slow down the spread of the virus from asymptomatic people and people who do not known that they have contracted it.
• It is the only way to break chain of contagion
• It protects you from getting the virus and becoming sick. The impact of social distancing is greater than personal safety alone. It protects your loved ones.
• It is a proven means of reducing deaths in a pandemic

•  It reduces the basic reproduction number, known as the “R naught”. The R naught represents the average number of people who can be infected by one person, and it can increase and decrease depending on the rate of spread.
• If everyone does their part and practices social (physical) distancing to slow the rate of COVID-19 spread, it will give hospitals a fighting chance to continue to have room, necessary supplies and health care providers for all patients who need care. 

Social Distancing in School

Due to Corona virus school term came to an abrupt end, following the announcement that schools would be close to the majority of children. However it would remain open for those who have key worker patents, as well as vulnerable children. When schools will reopen for majority of children social distancing should be required to keep distance from others to limit the spreading of virus. 

It is discussed to for school re-opening that it will work in phased manner to stop too many individuals sharing the school environment at one time. As we know physical distancing, hand hygiene, and other critical behaviour will be essential in each sector. 

The first and most important measure is to ensure that those display any symptoms of virus do not enter the school where it is children, patent, or any visitors. The virus that caused Corona virus mainly transmits through droplets generated when an infected person coughs, sneezes or speaks. These are too heavy to hang in the air. They quickly fall on surfaces. It is advised to follow steps on social distancing, hand washing and other hygiene measures, and cleansing of surfaces. 

Some of the measures that are suggested for maintaining social distancing in schools are:

• Cancelling our postponing activities like sports practice
• Cancelling field trips
• Discourage use of public transport
• Increasing space among students like move class outdoors, divide class into smaller groups, etc.

• Suspending use of common area
• Implementing standards workplace social distancing measures for teachers and other staff
• Segregating students within common areas

• Limiting visitors
• Minimize movement throughout the building, and restrict mixing between groups. Try to keep the same student and staff groupings together throughout the school day as much as possible.
• Avoid sharing electronic devices, books, games, and other learning aids. Students might need their own bin of materials that they use for learning — and these materials will need to be cleaned regularly.

Use a hybrid approach that combines face-to-face and online instruction.

Instead of having all students return to school at once, you might consider using a hybrid approach to learning that combines face-to-face and online instruction.
For instance, you might have students attend school in person two days a week and learn online three days a week. Half the students in each class could attend on Mondays and Wednesdays, and the other half could attend on Tuesdays and Thursdays. On Fridays, you could have everyone working from home online while custodial staff deep cleans the building.

Another approach might be to have student’s alternate weeks of face-to-face and online instruction. One cohort could attend school for weeks one and three of the month and learn remotely from home during weeks two and four, and the other cohort could follow the opposite schedule.

All educational settings are advised to follow the Public Health England (PHE) guidance on cleaning for non-healthcare settings. Schools should clean and disinfect equipment, toys and surfaces more regularly. This includes keyboards, mouse, tables, chairs, door handles, light switches and banisters. Bins for tissues should be emptied throughout the day.

Staff, children, young people and families should be reminded to wash their hands for 20 seconds more frequently than normal, including on arrival at the setting, before and after eating, and after sneezing or coughing.

There are various technology products which will help people to maintain social distancing of certain distance at school or work or another place. 

Safepace is great safety technology product of Adstuck which is a digital marketing practice marketing campaign agency working from all over the world with four locations India, Singapore, Estonia and US. Its mission is to provide instant access to a talented workforce to enterprise.

SafeSpace is a unique social distancing tool that can be worn on the wrist or clipped to a belt and provides an intelligent, proactive social distancing solution, that will help us to get ‘boots back on the ground’ whilst keeping the workforce safe. It does this by providing real-time audible, visual and vibrating alerts when a device identifies another within 2 metres of itself.

It is a non-bulky, wearable technology that can last for more than 12 hours on a single charge, and will help to create a culture of spatial awareness and drive positive behavioural change, protecting employees and helping them to follow government protocols. SafeSpace enables contractors to guarantee the safety and welfare of their workforce, while at the same time ramping up delivery to meet the challenging opportunities being presented in highway maintenance and construction. 

Safespace is a Safety technology service provider. It is a location safety system for urban transport. It is a safety system that qualifies, secures and monitors travellers for zero contagion during travel and beyond. During a pandemic situation verifying and qualifying passengers, keeping them separate during all time and securing zones for correct occupancy ratio, queue management I is only way to bring back the world order of community and Safespace helps in this process efficiently. 

Products of Safespace are:

• Counter system which limit the entry in a space QADAM sensor
• Cono wearable is a system who alerts distance monitors using their quick sensors, smart monitors servers which monitor access and monitors movements
• ML Omnicloud is a core brain which applies all the algorithms and workflows
• Corerock admin platform is the place that add metros, buses, timing and others
• Cono user’s app known as security centre to keep and feel secures and becoming a quick qualified visitors/traveller. 

Safespace provides services for standard and customized application and projects. It is a technology which has 

• IOE: the core sensors which collect all the data and alerts
• Pervasive computing: Making access, qualifying and sanitization on auto mode
• Integration platform: Add your existing systems in a whisker
• AR & Machine Learning: The augmented systems to model space and collect probabilistic data from visual
• Cloud Backend: All automations can be pushed on the fly from distance
•  Emergency Management: A dedicated team to handle emergency.

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