Coronavirus #65 – sport is back… in the game

Marta Kufel

All Szczecin 'orlik' pitches, a dozen or so selected sports facilities, an outdoor part of the Sailing Centre, as well as restoration and rehabilitation rooms on SDS are being prepared for opening. After the May weekend, the facilities will be able to resume their activities under the new rules.
According to the government's decision, from the 4th of May the following open sports infrastructure facilities are to be made available:
-- Municipal Athletics Stadium - ul. Litewska 20 (excluding the Hall)
- Tennis courts - al. Wojska Polskiego (excluding the Hall)
- Cycling track - al. Wojska Polskiego
- Court - ul. Witkiewicza
- Sports and Recreation Complex - ul. Nehringa (excluding the balcony)
- Municipal Sports Facility - ul. Bandurskiego
- Municipal Sports and Recreation Centre - ul. Modra
- Sports and Recreation Facility - ul. Potulicka
- Sports Facility Bukowe - ul. Pomarańczowa
- Sports Facility - ul. Orla
- Sports Facility Jezierzyce - ul. Topolowa
- Sports Facility - ul. Paproci
- Sports Facility Skolwin - ul. Stołczyńska
- Obiekt Sportowy Wielgowo - ul. Wesoła
- Sports Facility Załom - os. Kasztanowe
- Youth Stadium - ul. Tenisowa (without the leased part - tennis)
- Rehabilitation and Biological Renewal Department in the Szczecin Sports House - ul. Wąska
- Sailing Centre (open parts with access to water)
- "Orlik" school pitches and playgrounds
Due to the ongoing epidemic, access to the said facilities will be limited (max. 6 people on the fields and stadiums; max. 4 people for the tennis court; max. 2 people for water sports equipment), and users will have to apply safety rules: maintaining social distance, covering the face (when reaching a given sports facility, while staying on e.g. a pitch, there is no obligation to cover their faces), verification of participants (reporting to the administrator of persons entering the facility, no use of the cloakroom and sanitary facilities (except toilets), disinfection of devices after each use and each group, mandatory hand disinfection when entering and leaving the facility, use of personal training equipment or disinfection after each use.
ATTENTION! Employees of the municipality and municipal administrative units prepare the abovementioned objects to be opened based on the announcements of government representatives from press conferences that took place on the 25th and the 29th of April 25 this year. However, to this date, state authorities have not published the relevant ordinances, which in the light of the epidemic would allow legally making sports complexes available to users. Therefore, the opening of the objects mentioned above, fully depends on the government implementing the necessary formal and legal issues.