Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla on Thursday said that social distancing norms will be strictly followed in the monsoon session of parliament in view of COVID-19 pandemic and 257 MPs of the House will sit in Lok Sabha chamber, 172 in the visitors gallery and the remaining members in the Rajya Sabha chamber and its gallery. Both Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha will have sittings on the same day with one house meeting in the morning and the other in the afternoon. It is the first time in the history of parliament that the two Houses will have such sitting and different scheduled timing for their meetings.