The visit of lakes and pools is a risk?

By the Coronavirus pandemic, the planning of the summer raises some new difficulties. When a simple visit to the outdoor pool, the question of the risk of infection arises. In a brief fact check, you can inform yourself.

When it gets hot, it draws people into the cool water. In times of Corona, the question is: Is this dangerous? The temperatures rise, the uncertainty remains: When the summer heat comes, grows the longing for cooling. I may in Corona times to the pool, to the lake or into the sea?

Statement: in the face of a threat of infection with the Coronavirus is Swimming in outdoor pools, lakes, and seas too dangerous.

Review: Swimming in itself is not a problem. However, the visitors of the beach or pools must adhere to the distance rules.

Facts: Who’s in the pool, to the lake or to the sea, should also be out of the water with caution. The nightmare of virologists are close to each other and towels with the sun people to it.

Water in indoor and outdoor pools usually not a problem

From the cool Wet even with a lower infection risk than by direct contact from person to person. Also scientists agree. There is little reason for concern there is, if it is treated and chlorine – disinfected pool water in the indoor and outdoor pools. The Virus will be inactivated by “reliably”, says Christian Ochsenbauer, managing Director of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für das Badewesen.

This is also confirmed by the German Federal environment Agency (UBA): “The water in a conventional swimming pools (outdoor or indoor swimming pools) is subject to a permanent treatment. (…) Filtration and disinfection are effective procedures for the inactivation of registered micro-organisms (e.g. bacteria and viruses).“

Bathrooms without a disinfectant a risk

Those who visit the pools with biological treatment such as swimming and bathing ponds, but should look more closely. They contain, according to the Federal environment Agency is “not a disinfectant, therefore, a certain risk of infection of such baths, to which the bather is generally out should be.” Similarly, it is known that Coronavirus in the non-treated sewage, is Janne Vehreschild, head of the German centre for infection research, a working group of the risk factors for Covid-19 explains. The expert: “Whether these amounts are sufficient for infection, have not yet been determined.”

Natural waters safe

Safe bathing was against it and Swimming in large Natural bodies of water such as lakes or seas such as the North sea and the Baltic sea, according to the UBA. The risk of contagion was due to the dilution in water is extremely low: “Rising water temperatures and increased sunlight in summer will lead to a stronger inactivation may be in the water registered a virus.” The world health organization have found no evidence that the Coronavirus is transmitted via the waterway.

Basically, however, people with respiratory infections or diarrhea should not bathe, in order not to endanger others, warns the AAP. This is true regardless of what kind of potential disease pathogens is in the Individual. (fp; Source dpa)