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By Phil Noble and Guy Faulconbridge
GREASBY / LONDON (Reuters) – For a gym owner in north-west England, Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s most recent COVID-19 closure is a step too far: to save his business, he challenged the government’s order to close, along with dozens of gymnasiums. in the area.
Governments around the world have imposed some of the toughest restrictions in peacetime history to combat coronavirus, with more or less success. The virus has killed more than a million people and Europe is on a wave of moments.
The measures have also led many companies, and in some cases entire industries, to bankruptcy. Some feel ignored and start pushing back the rules.
“We’re meant to be closed but we’re open,” Chris Ellerby-Hemmings, 36, owner of empoweredfit gym in Greasby, near Liverpool, told Reuters.
He said 50 other gymnasiums also remained open, an open demonstration of defiance that opposes the British government about 240 miles south of London.
As a component of a new multi-level formula beginning Wednesday, Liverpool and the surrounding Merseyside domain are classified as “very high” risk, subject to some of the strictest blocking measures in England, adding the closure of pubs, gyms and casinos.
Uk government clinical advisers say the virus, which gave the impression in China last year, is spreading across the UK and extensive care beds are starting to fill with COVID-19 patients in high-risk areas.
But EmpoweredFit’s Ellerby-Hemmings said regulations seemed irrational because COVID-19 transmission declined in gyms, while restaurants, which said they had a higher transmission rate, were allowed to remain open.
“The government has not presented evidence as to why we deserve to close; they simply did so irrationally,” said Ellerby-Hemmings, who closed the gym at the first national close from March 25 to July 25.
“If we closed again, because we were very indebted, we could not reopen. They’d lose their jobs and I’d lose my business,” he said.
Ellerby-Hemmings said gyms were essential to keep others fit, combat obesity and intellectual health.
Opened the 16,000-square-foot gym, which opened 24 hours a day in February 2017. Overall prices are approximately 15,000 pounds ($19,000) consistent with the month, however, according to government programs, it has been presented only 3,000 pounds consistent with the month. Rent is only 6,000 pounds per month.
“We need you to listen to us, we’ve tried to open an argument yet, so we’ve been ignored,” Ellerby-Hemmings said.
The gym consulted with lawyers about the application of the rules.
Will he ever give up? I said, “No. Simple answer. “
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(Report via Guy Faulconbridge; edited through Raissa Kasolowsky)