Gyms are high-risk areas for COVID-19

Lahore, 2nd March: Gyms are high-risk venues for the transmission of the COVID-19 virus.

Baaghi TV: According to reports, researchers warned in two papers published in the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report saying that gyms are high-risk areas for COVID-19 transmission.

Researchers added that people need to wear masks while in the gymnasiums.

According to one of the studies done in August, an outbreak in a Chicago gym where 55 COVID-19 cases were identified among 81 people going to indoor high-intensity exercise classes.

The researchers reported, “Twenty-two (40%) persons with COVID-19 attended on or after the day symptoms began. Most attendees (76%) wore masks infrequently, including persons with (84%) and without COVID-19 (60%).”

The other study also showed that among three gyms in Hawaii where 21 COVID-19 cases in July were linked to two instructors who taught classes while infected. The rate of infection among students exposed before the instructors showed symptoms was 95%.

The Chicago researchers said that gym attendees should wear masks even during high-intensity exercise, despite being 6 feet (1.83 m) or more apart.

Gyms should enforce social distancing, improve ventilation, and encourage attendees to isolate after the symptom appear, possible exposure to COVID-19, or a positive coronavirus test result.

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