0 the practice of keeping away from other people as much as possible, or of keeping a certain distance from other people, in order to stop a disease from spreading to a lot of people:
To slow the transmission, social distancing might be useful.
The cities that instigated early social distancing measures did better.
WHO has drawn up a list of 140 possible interventions, such as social distancing, entry screening, and exit screening.
The number of cases could be reduced until a vaccine were available, if we were able to achieve this amount of social distancing.
The various measures of social distancing - reducing use of mass transit, closing schools, canceling public gatherings and isolating the sick - were examples of measures that in combination can reduce risk.
