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Coronavirus: Gyms

Question for Department of Health and Social Care

UIN 157333, tabled on 23 February 2021

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the effect on public health of the closure of gyms as a result of covid-19 restrictions.

Answered on

3 March 2021

The Government considers the impact restrictions may have on public health.

Whilst we recognise that exercise is important for people’s mental and physical health, gyms are high risk settings for spreading COVID-19.