Coronavirus, those who live near the sea, a river or a lake are allowed to bathe

Those who are lucky enough to live in a house a few hundred meters from the sea, a lake or a river, know that they can also swim, as long as they are alone or within a meter of a person.The images of the police helicopter that lowering and raising the sand drives away a solitary swimmer from Mondello beach, then fined several times (but did not live near the beach), have made the rounds of the web but just as the government is still discussing on what, how and when to allow citizens in Phase 2, from the answers to the frequently asked questions on the Palazzo Chigi website comes this statement: “It is always possible to carry out physical activity near your main home, or in any case where you has been staying since March 22, 2020, with the consequence that it is allowed, for those who live in mountain, hilly, lake, river or marine places – and as long as it is not a subject for which it is strictly forbidden to move as a subject to the quarantine measure or is positive to the virus – carry out this activity in these places (including bathing in the sea / river / lake) as long as individually and in any case respecting the distance of at least one meter from every other person “.
Therefore, bathing and swimming, as long as alone, are allowed between physical activities. The Palazzo Chigi website also explains why: sea, rivers, lakes “are not places closed to the public, as parks and green urban areas are currently, and also bathing establishments, where the prohibition of entry and movement. It remains understood that it must be exclusively activities carried out without the need to move away from one’s own home and without therefore making it necessary to use public or private means of transport, nor significant movements. They are, however, different and more stringent prohibitions imposed on a local basis because justified by specific territorial situations. The existence of the conditions in question (motor activity carried out in the vicinity of one’s home) may be justified with self-certification, if the agents who carry out the checks require it “.