Swimming Pool safety and prevention at the time of Covid-19: a consensus document from GSMS-SItI

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-C...

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Published inAnnali di igiene Vol. 32; no. 5; p. 439
Main Authors Romano Spica, V, Gallè, F, Baldelli, G, Valeriani, F, Di Rosa, E, Liguori, G, Brandi, G
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Italy 01.09.2020
Subjects
Betacoronavirus
Coronavirus Infections - prevention & control
Coronavirus Infections - transmission
COVID-19
Disease Transmission, Infectious - prevention & control
Disinfection
Exercise
Facility Design and Construction
Humans
Hygiene - standards
Infection Control - methods
Italy
Pandemics - prevention & control
Personal Protective Equipment
Pneumonia, Viral - prevention & control
Pneumonia, Viral - transmission
Population Surveillance
Public Health
Quarantine
Risk Assessment
SARS-CoV-2
Swimming Pools - standards
Water Microbiology - standards
Water Purification - methods
Water Purification - standards
Water Quality - standards
Italy
Disinfection
Lockdown
SARS-CoV-2
Recreational water
Guidelines
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Summary: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.
ISSN:1120-9135
DOI:10.7416/ai.2020.2368