Dr Hilary gave a warning about close contact with friends and family as hugging is permitted during the easing of Covid-19 restrictions.
On Good Morning Britain on Monday the doctor demonstrated the safest way to share a hug with your nearest and dearest as things continue to open up.
A short video showed him and his wife Dee wearing masks and not facing each other as they went in for an embrace.
Dr Hilary, who previously said hugs could prove a risk, advised that keeping your head turned away from the other person during a hug was to do it, and that you had to be ‘selective’.
He told hosts Susanna Reid and Adil Ray: ‘Everyone is desperate to hug, I think it’s important to be selective, not to hug all and sundry but to hug people most close to you, that you have been really keen to hug.
‘It’s important to ask them, have they got any symptoms? Have they been exposed to anyone else in recent time? Have they been vaccinated?’
Susanna joked that people had to ‘do a health questionnaire’ before hugging, prompting Dr Hilary to explain that ‘lots of people still don’t want hugs’.
‘Ask them if they want to hug, get consent first, and then by all means hug,’ he went on, ‘But I would still wear a mask, I would turn your head away and not talk to them whilst you’re hugging them, because it’s aerosol contact.’
He added that it is important when hugging someone you haven’t seen for a while because of the pandemic.
The doctor explained: ‘It’s inhaling aerosol droplets from someone with the virus that’s almost guaranteed to transmit the virus.
‘So if it’s someone you haven’t seen for a while and you don’t know how they have been behaving, and if they have been socially responsible.’
Good Morning Britain airs weekdays from 6am on ITV.
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