Sport-Austria-President Hans Niessl once again emphasized the importance of sport for health on Monday and appealed to politicians to take the first steps in young and popular sport with the opening of schools from February 8 in the pandemic. “That is an essential contribution that we have to make to health,” said Niessl at a media meeting. One must also consider that exercise strengthens the immune system, added Hans-Peter Hutter.
The environmental doctor Hutter called on the decision-makers not only to keep an eye on the epidemic, but also on the comorbidities in lockdown. A lack of exercise and inactivity would have a variety of negative influences, including on mental health, and lead to long-term effects. “It is long overdue to take the next step,” said Hutter. The epidemic is currently in a stable area. “If now, hopefully, the educational institutions open up, space for movement will also need to be opened up,” said the deputy head of the Department for Environmental Hygiene and Environmental Medicine at the Medical University of Vienna.
Children “out of social lockdown”
Hutter warned of public health problems over the next few decades. “You have to fight that very clearly now. Children and young people belong out of their movement lockdown, out of their social lockdown! It is urgently time. ”With the tests, one now has a good instrument in hand that enables safe movement even in times of epidemic.
Hutter also called on the population to strictly adhere to the rules in the event of gradual openings from February 8th. “In the next two and a half weeks you will see the effects of the opening. If we don’t all stick together and the numbers go up again, then we don’t have to worry about new opening steps (in culture and sport, note). “
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