What is social distancing and will it stop the coronavirus from spreading?

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What is social distancing and will it stop the coronavirus from spreading?
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Government acknowledges that measures to reduce the contact people have with each other may need to be introduced

A man wearing a face mask crosses a road in Wuhan, the epicentre of the novel coronavirus outbreak.A view of the empty entrance to the Università Cattolica in Milan, northern Italy, on 24 February, 2020.Empty streets in Daegu, South Korea, on 23 February 2020.A lone sanitation worker sits near the closed Hankou Railway Station in Wuhan, Hubei province, China, on February 24, 2020.Italian police officers set a road block in Codogno, Northern Italy, on Monday, Feb. 24, 2020.

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