The pool water itself may not be a major source for transmission, but everything else about the pool environment, like commonly-touched hand rails, puts you at risk. — via healthing_ca
Outdoor pools are relatively safer because the combination of direct sunlight as well as high temperature and high humidity could weaken viruses quicker.
“If you move air and create an air current with indoor air, you could be making things more dangerous rather than less dangerous,” he says. “I would be very reluctant to go to an indoor pool, I would not be reluctant to go to an outdoor pool.” , make sure you’re not all in the pool at the same time. And Furness recommends keeping the time spent to an hour.Changerooms and showers are another worry because they’re often a tight space with a lot of closeness between strangers and many commonly touched surfaces. Between the aisles, benches, lockers, there’s also shared air, and physical distancing is hard to maintain.
If you need to go indoors to shower before swimming, limit the amount of time. “You don’t need a long shower, you just need to get yourself wet. Make sure there are not a lot of people around.”As soon as a virus leaves the body, it becomes fragile without a host. Furness says because viruses are not alive, they don’t have metabolism and can’t adjust to protect themselves.
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