{"id":163456,"date":"2020-10-06T15:54:39","date_gmt":"2020-10-06T13:54:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/10\/06\/uk-government-urged-to-classify-leisure-centres-essential-or-face-mass-closures\/"},"modified":"2020-10-06T15:54:39","modified_gmt":"2020-10-06T13:54:39","slug":"uk-government-urged-to-classify-leisure-centres-essential-or-face-mass-closures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=163456","title":{"rendered":"UK government urged to classify leisure centres &#039;essential&#039; or face mass closures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gyms and swimming pools also threatened by Covid pandemic UK Active chief says centres are vital to public healthThe government has been urged to reclassify swimming pools, gyms and leisure centres as \u2018essential services\u2019 vital to public health \u2013 or face the prospect of thousands of facilities being shut permanently if a second lockdown is introduced.As the Guardian revealed in June, nearly half of Britain\u2019s public leisure centres and 20% of the country\u2019s swimming pools risk being closed for good before Christmas \u2013 putting more than 58,000 jobs in peril \u2013 because of the coronavirus pandemic. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2020\/oct\/06\/government-urged-to-classify-leisure-centres-swimming-pools-gyms-essential-or-face-mass-closures-covid\" target=\"_blank\">UK government urged to classify leisure centres &#039;essential&#039; or face mass closures<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gyms and swimming pools also threatened by Covid pandemic UK Active chief says centres are vital to public healthThe government has been urged to reclassify swimming pools, gyms and leisure centres as \u2018essential services\u2019 vital to public health \u2013 or face the prospect of thousands of facilities being shut permanently [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=163456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163456\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=163456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=163456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=163456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}