On Wednesday night, the president Alberto Fernandez announced a series of restrictive measures to try to mitigate the impact of the second wave of coronavirus about the country. This Thursday morning DNU 235 was published in the official gazette, which formalizes and specifies these announcements.
Among the battery of regulations that restrict or prohibit various activities, there is an article that deals with what happens with recreational practice, both indoors and outdoors. This is an issue of the utmost importance for the hundreds of Argentines who meet at least once a week to show their taste for sport on the soccer fields. soccer 5.
In the specific case of this item, subsection 2 of article 14 of the DNU points out that “the sporting practice of any sport in closed places is suspended where more than 10 people participate or that do not allow maintaining a minimum distance of two meters between the participants ”.
If the letter of this decree is taken as a reference, football 5 could continue to function in closed places, as long as the participants are not more than 10. This is just what is required to set up a meeting of this activity: five players on each side.
With regard to outdoor recreational activities, the DNU establishes that the number of participants can be up to 20 people.
When the five soccer fields were reopened in November of last year, after being closed for more than eight months, they did so with regulations that ensured the care of the players.
In establishments, they had to be on the air free or well ventilated environments, there should be sanitizing elements; only one person could enter the administration to pay for the pitch; the players of the match had to wear a chinstrap until the moment they entered the field; and the changing rooms were closed.
Regarding the situation in different complexes, where there is more than one court, this medium consulted with the Ministry of Health what logic would be applied; however, so far there was no response.
Basically, what the decree does not specify is whether 10 persons who can participate in a match of soccer 5 they are limited to a single court. In which case, it is not specified what would happen if a sports complex has more than one court.
About, Ramiro Vergara placeholder image, which has complexes of soccer 5 in the City of Buenos Aires and is in full training with other entrepreneurs from the Chamber of Sports Facilities of CABA, understands that the letter of the regulation in that sense “is complex.”
The businessman clarified, however, that “if the regulations of gyms are applied to soccer fields 5, with a capacity of 30% in relation to the maximum capacity per square meter, in a soccer field 5 that percentage is met in excess, because you have between 50 and 300 square meters per player”. “That is, you can use the number of courts you want as long as you meet the 30% capacity,” he added.
In 2020 the activity of the soccer fields 5 stopped for almost 9 monthsInfo
“I did not work for nine months. I’m going to continue because I can’t close, ”he said to THE NATION Daniel Maccio, who has a complex with several courts in Boedo. The businessman assured that they did not receive any specific instructions from the authorities to explain the letter of the DNU.
“Working with a single court would not help me. And if I close, I don’t open more ”, he added Maccio, who explained that he must continue with his activity because he has a large amount of debts accumulated at the time when the activity was paralyzed during 2020.
“We are very concerned about the future of the business, which will not be able to withstand another total closure like last year,” he said in the same sense. Vergara-. The entire sector was in a state of bankruptcy, trying to survive, to be able to face the debts that were generated in the almost nine months that we were closed ”.
Finally, the employer of the soccer 5 He stressed that the measures to combat the coronavirus are respected: “From the Chamber we are committed to complying with the protocols from the reopening of activities and we have not registered any case of contagion in the place. We have only received notifications from customers that several days after playing they warned us that they had been infected and we notified the other users who were at the same time, so that they are attentive to the symptoms ”.
This medium contacted the Ministry of Health to find out if there is a definition in this regard regarding the doubts that arose in the sector. However, so far there was no response.
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