Malaysia: most important COVID-19 hygiene measures for gyms to implement 2020

According to a survey on gym memberships conducted by Rakuten Insight, around 58 percent of respondents in Malaysia with gym memberships said that they would go back to the gym after COVID-19 restrictions were lifted if their gym limited the number of people training there at a given time. The same survey found that 83 percent of Malaysian respondents with gym memberships would go back to the gym once the lockdown measures were eased.

Leading hygiene measures that gyms should implement to reassure members to go back to the gym after COVID-19 lockdown restrictions were lifted in Malaysia as of August 2020

Characteristic	Share of respondents
Limiting the number of people training at a given time in the gym	57.78%
Ensuring that all equipment have a minimum distance of 1.5 m between them	45.87%
Having additional cleaning staff to disinfect and sterilize the equipment after each use	42.43%
Temperature checks before entering the gym	32.91%
Make it compulsory to wear masks in the gym	32.24%
Provide ample hand sanitizers around the gym/ in each sector of the gym	21.81%
Introducing a signing in/out system to keep track of who has been using the gym for easier contact tracing	16.33%
None of the above - I do not believe that anything can be done to make the gym safe as long as no vaccine has been found	3.2%
Others	1.4%

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Leading COVID-19 hygiene measures that gyms must have for people in Malaysia 2020