Rejected petition To re-open the gyms in Wales
The science is showing there is a 1 in 300,000 chance of catching Covid. Gyms are proven to help the nhs but battling obesity and also a range of mental health.
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The only government data on gyms comes from Public Health England's surveillance report, which is based on data from Test and Trace .
That data puts gyms on 3%, while supermarkets are 12%, pubs and bars are 10% and secondary schools are 5%. But what those percentages mean is a bit tricky.
In the week to 11 October, 73,561 people who had tested positive for coronavirus were referred for contact tracing.
Of those, 20,776 had been somewhere in the previous seven days that at least one other person contacted had visited.
About 620 of those said they had been to the gym. We don't know if they caught it at the gym - we just know they visited the gym.
620 out of 22,000,000 is a very low number
Why was this petition rejected?
There’s already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue, or if the Petitions Committee has considered one in the last year.
Another petition calling for this is already collecting signatures: https://petitions.senedd.wales/petitions/244240
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