Covid: Association of sports centers: 'We must stay open'

The Anif Association, which represents the Italian sports centers, wrote a letter to Minister Vicenzo Spadafora to "reiterate the important reasons why it is not necessary to close them." We pray you, who have already spent several times in defense of yours and ours sector, to intervene in reiterating that sports centers can remain open because with the current and accurate control the contagion does not spread and the rules of the protocol are applied with attention and effective control ". The letter explains that" sportsmen are, regardless of the covid, people who are very health conscious as a lifestyle and therefore observe the rules. In sports centers prevention is made against the main chronic diseases which are those for which covid is particularly harmful, all citizens are helped to overcome this period of enormous psychological difficulty, all the Italian athletes at the top in the various disciplines. Finally, from our survey, carried out in more than 1,000 centers throughout Italy, the incidence of positive cases among those who frequent sports centers is far below the national average and almost non-existent "." I add lastly - wrote the president Anif, Giampaolo Duregon - the enormous damage that would be done with the closure: nearly 20 million Italians are damaged for whom physical movement represents a healthy lifestyle and a sure antidote for all diseases ".