World Athletics: a task force to prevent health risks at events for the general public

"World Athletics has joined forces with the International Institute for Race Medicine (IIRM) to set up a medical taskforce to provide endurance events that include mass gatherings with guidelines for outbreak prevention," said the body on 17/04/2020. "The Outbreak Prevention Taskforce will hold its first meeting during the week of 20/04/2020 with the aim of producing guidelines as soon as reasonably possible."

"The Outbreak Prevention Taskforce, will include the medical chairs or representatives of the International Cycling Union (UCI), International Ski Federation (FIS), International Triathlon Union (ITU), International Paralympic Committee (IPC) and World Rowing (FISA), as well as professor Brian McCloskey of the Centre on Global Health Security, Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House), an independent expert in outbreak prevention and member of the WHO Novel Coronavirus-19 Mass Gatherings Expert Group. The taskforce will also be served by an advisory group, which will include representatives of industry, private companies, sponsors, partners, and media,…