A pub has installed an 'antiviral gateway' to sanitise punters from head to toe as they enter.
The Cannon in Guildford, Surrey, has taken the extra step to help keep customers safe from Covid with hospitality venues allowed to serve inside for the first time in months.
The boozer is one of several venues to introduce the innovative gateway, sponsored by Heineken.
Owner Louise Brazier, 55, said the mechanism leaves customers almost entirely clear of bacteria, as she bids to stamp out the spread of the virus, reports Surrey Live.
She said: "We have put in lots of safety measures to keep you all safe.
"You have to come in, take your temperature, walk through, do a 360-degree turn, and that sanitises you, and then you're 99.9 percent clear of all bacteria."
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Customers are then asked to use hand sanitiser and sign in using their name or use the NHS track and trace app.
In a video demonstrating the contraption, Louise said the gateway is "probably the only one in Guildford" as she talks a staff member through the procedure.
It comes following the latest step in the Government's roadmap to the lifting of lockdown.
As of Monday, a number of indoor attractions and venues can now open, including cinemas, while pubs and restaurants no longer have to solely serve customers outside.
Six people from different households or two full households are now also permitted to gather inside a home for the first time since last year.
The Indian variant of the virus is spreading quickly through the UK and Boris Johnson has warned it could affect the final date of the lockdown easing on June 21.
However, an expert claims the mutation transmission rate could be lower than first feared - though warned vaccines could be less effective against it.
Neil Ferguson, an epidemiologist at Imperial College London, told BBC radio today: "There's... a glimmer of hope from the recent data that, whilst this variant does still appear to have a significant growth advantage, the magnitude of that advantage seems to have dropped a little bit with the most recent data.
"There's a good deal of confidence...that vaccines will protect against severe disease.
"The thing we're slightly concerned about is whether there's an impact on the ability of vaccines to prevent infection or mild disease and therefore prevent transmission in the community."
