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Swimming Pool safety and prevention at the time of Covid-19: a consensus document from GSMS-SItI #MMPMID32578839
Romano Spica V; Galle F; Baldelli G; Valeriani F; Di Rosa E; Liguori G; Brandi G
Ann Ig 2020[Sep]; 32 (5): 439-448 PMID32578839show ga
Public health measures to cope with the Covid-19 pandemic, imposed also a shutdown of sports facilities and swimming pools. Safety issues related to recreational waters were emerging during the lockdown, rising concerns on how and when reopening pools and on how improve their management while SARS-CoV-2 is circulating in the population. The GSMS-SItI, Working Group on Movement Sciences for Health of the Italian Society of Hygiene Preventive Medicine and Public Health, discussed and summarized some indications for a suitable preventive approach. Several measures are highlighted, including social distancing, optimized water management, airflow and microclimatic parameters in the pool as well in the annexed rooms, verification of sanitation procedures. The GSMS-SItI underlines that prevention should be based on monitoring of the local epidemiological situation and on the constant collaboration with the local health authority and the national health service.
Ann+Ig 2020 ; 32 (5): 439-448
