Delhi gym owners and trainers are requesting some relief from the state to have the gyms reopened with Covid-19-appropriate restrictions
The closure of gyms was announced in the last week of December, and no decision on reopening has been made. Sharma continues, “Weekly markets are open, malls are allowed on odd-even, liquor shops are open with such long queues, so why can’t gyms be open?” Nikhil Kakkar, COO, Gold’s Gym India, rues, “The industry has been struggling. We were already operating at 50% capacity because the full capacity advisory never came to us. The better decision would have been to follow the same 50% advisory even now.”