The CTUSF has implemented measures at its events amid the coronavirus pandemic ©CTUSF

The Chinese Taipei University Sports Federation (CTUSF) has implemented several measures to ensure its tournaments could continue as planned despite the coronavirus outbreak.

The COVID-19 virus has sparked a near total shut down of sport worldwide, but a number of CTUSF events have gone ahead as scheduled.

Events have been held behind closed doors, while the CTUSF asked each university to handpick 50 entrants, including all athletes, staff members and spectators, at a basketball tournament last month.

Each person who entered the venue also had to record their arrival with a signature, sanitise their hands and have their body temperature checked.

Events have been held behind closed doors as part of measures designed to prevent the spread of COVID-19 ©FISU
Events have been held behind closed doors as part of measures designed to prevent the spread of COVID-19 ©FISU

"Right from February onwards, when the number of infections were doubling every few days in China, we started to discuss ways to prevent our sports events from becoming coronavirus hotspots,” said CTUSF secretary general Ching-Yu Tzeng.

"We informed all the spectators to put on masks before entering the venue, and we bought equipment like thermometers and thermal imagers to check everyone’s body temperature on arrival."

Taiwan - known as Chinese Taipei in the Olympic Movement - has reported 388 cases of the virus and six deaths.

"Basically, we are following Centers for Disease Control (CDC) instructions," added Tzeng. 

"When the CDC decreased the numbers of people allowed in indoor gatherings from 300 to 100, we had to come up with supplementary measures."