Something to consider if you’re thinking about going to the gym during another peak of the pandemic
Photo: AFP via Getty Images It seems like only yesterday protesters were doing civil disobedience squats outside their local courthouses to demand their right to go to the gym. But now, with nearly all of the country in some phase of reopening , fitness facilities have been opening, too. For one Planet Fitness in West Virginia, the return has not gone so well.
The Fresno Bee reports that 205 gym-goers may have been exposed to COVID-19 after a Planet Fitness patron tested positive for coronavirus, according to health officials. The Morgantown location has asked anyone who visited the gym between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. on June 24 to go into quarantine for at least 14 days and monitor their symptoms closely.
Planet Fitness said in a statement that it had closed the affected location on Monday for a deep cleaning “out of an abundance of caution,” and that it expected to reopen today.
Monongalia County, where the Planet Fitness is located, had 152 confirmed coronavirus cases as of Saturday, according to its health department. CNN reports that the state of West Virginia has seen 400 new confirmed cases in the past 12 days. Certainly something to consider if you’re thinking about going to the gym during another peak of the pandemic.
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