Just when there is light at the end of the COVID-19 tunnel, an outbreak at Ursus Fitness in Sai Ying Pun sends shock waves to the embattled fitness industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A total of 122 cases were related to the gym, according to a figure from the Centre for Health Protection as of March 15, the second-largest cluster outbreak in Hong Kong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Many fitness coaches had no income when gym centres were\nclosed, as all classes were cancelled. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
But they still had to cover the rents and maintenance\nfees of their gym centres. Coaches and\nsportsmen trainers are disappointed by the government\u2019s response to their\nsufferings. They criticized the government\u2019s response as being too careless and\nunaware of the current situation of the industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In this issue of Varsity<\/em>,\nwe look into the fitness industry in Hong Kong. \nOur reporters interviewed coaches and fitness centres owners, to find\nout their difficulties and how they coped with online classes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Varsity also explores other social issues such as the latest\ndevelopment in telemedicine, young couples\u2019 sex vacation, struggles of an ethnic\nminority student, K-pop industry, innovative virtual art, and Christian music\nin Hong Kong. Our reporters in mainland China report young gay men under family\npressure and the podcast industry in the country. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Enjoy the read, and we wish all the best for\neveryone. Stay safe and healthy!<\/p>\n\n\n\n Sarah Ryou<\/p>\n\n\n\n Chief Editor<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Fitness industry has been suffering a sharp slump in business due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. Gym centres were closed for months to reduce infection risk that the government only allows them to reopen from February 18th, 2021. Just when there is light at the end of the COVID-19 tunnel, an outbreak at Ursus Fitness […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":18668,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,1774],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-editor-note","category-issue-158"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18654"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18796,"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18654\/revisions\/18796"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Name-1-300x84.png\")
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