New Dpcm, active amateur football up to First Category, gyms and swimming pools remain open

Mario Canfora – Valerio Piccioni

October 18
– ROME

Except for amateur football up to the Second Category, suspension instead of school football matches and basic activity, which can only be carried out with training with distance and without competitive phases: this is what emerges from the latest draft of the Dpcm that Premier Giuseppe Conte is about to sign.

Events

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The text specifies that “only events and competitions of regional and national interest are allowed”, while “basic amateur sports, schools and initial training activities related to contact sports are only allowed individually and not for races and competitions “. All amateur activities are suspended, with regard to football, for example, the regional level reaches First category in some territories and in others Second, so all Third Category matches and in some regions of Second category are stopped. All this confirmed instead in terms of the presence of the public in the sports facilities, with 15% of the capacities up to a maximum of a thousand spectators for the outdoor facilities and 200 for the interior ones, but there is the possibility for the Autonomous Regions and Provinces , according to the Ministry of Health, of a different maximum number of spectators for events and competitions not outdoors as long as 15% of the capacity is not exceeded. Obviously, in some regions, such as Lombardy, the restrictive rules already enacted in recent days apply.

Gyms

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Regarding the gyms and swimming pools, Conte said that there was an intense dialogue with the CTS (Scientific Technical Committee). “We receive varied and contradictory news, many structures adopt security tools, others do not: we give a week to adapt all security protocols. If everything is adequate, there will be no reason to suspend or close the gyms, otherwise we will intervene ”.