Many have already closed their doors definitively
MÉRIDA, Yuc.- The sports clubs and private gyms in the entity, as well as public sports units will have to wait until September for a possible reopening of activities.
Carlos Sáenz Castillo, director of the State Sports Institute (IDEY) spoke with Novedades Yucatán about the situation that sport is going through, specifically the spaces to carry out a discipline or physical conditioning.
He assured that he knows the environment through which gym owners pass and that he even regretted the closure of 25 percent of those places, due to the health contingency that since March 16 has changed the way of living of all.
He explained that this data was provided by the regional head of the National Federation of Gyms, Jacobo Abraham and the secretary of the local Association of physical-constructivism, Evangelina Cimé.
«They told me that there are little more than 60 gyms that are desperate and we understand it, many of them live daily, paying the user fees and have been closed for two months,» said Sáenz Castillo.
He added that he knows that the closing of many gyms is imminent, because “they have even sold their equipment. The situation of that union is serious, but it is not up to the Institute to authorize them or not and they understood it, what was achieved was that they had a place and voice in a meeting that was held last week with the Planning Secretariat, where did one of the work tables, ”he said.
He specified that gyms «are somehow a primary focus of contagion, if they are reopened, it would be with strict hygiene measures.»
He specified that these measures could be «perhaps not to arrive with a towel but to carry two, or that the gym would be obliged for a company with a contract in hand to be passing by and sanitize the machines every time.»
He added that the distance between devices will be a very important point, because “there are some next to each other and maybe it would not be like that, putting them at a certain distance; but we must understand that in June it is not a priority to open the gyms, ”he explained.
Sport clubs
Regarding sports clubs, “they still had a voice and joined those work tables, such as the Country Club, where they expressed that golf would already take action in the matter, such as the transfer of carts (caddy) that would no longer carry 4 people ; but the main concern today is not only the issue of health, but economic revival. «
He recalled that it is the Planning Secretariat that carries out the reopening protocols in the entity together with the Secretariats of Health and Economic Development.
«The sports units are going to be the last to open,» he concluded.
Source: Novedades Yucatan
