Professional baseball and J League request to ease the upper limit of the number of spectators in the new corona 14:17 on September 7
Professional baseball and soccer J League held a new coronavirus countermeasure liaison meeting and decided to request the government to ease the upper limit of the number of spectators currently set at 5000 people, saying that the infection situation is calming down ..
According to the policy of the government subcommittee, the maximum number of spectators at the game venues for professional baseball and J. League is 5,000 until the end of this month.
At the countermeasures liaison meeting on the 7th, experts said that the situation of infected persons nationwide was gradually becoming calm.
In response to this, professional baseball commissioner Atsushi Saito said, "I want to think about the next step," and made a request with the J League to review the upper limit of the number of spectators and clarified the idea to submit to the government in the near future. did.
At the conference after the conference, Mitsuo Kaku, a professor at Tohoku Medical and Pharmaceutical University, said, "Toward the Olympic and Paralympic Games of the next year, how to deal with infections at large-scale events will be a very important theme. The team of experts also supports the direction of taking measures against infection at the same time."
Specifically, we are requesting that the upper limit of the number of spectators be changed from 5000 to a limit according to the capacity of the stadium or stadium, Saito Commissioner said, ``The upper limit is the ratio to the capacity of the stadium. I want to ask for it."
In addition, the J-League Mitsuru Murai Chairman said, "The infection situation varies depending on the region, and the stadium capacity varies. We would like to propose a realistic line where infection control and economic activities can be carried out in parallel." It was
Pro Baseball and the J League would like to submit their requests to the government on the 8th after compiling their opinions.
Confirmation of infection of one professional baseball spectator Judging no rich contact
Professional baseball has held a game with a spectator from July 10th this season, but it turned out that there was a case where one spectator had been infected with the new coronavirus so far.
This was announced by the professional baseball commissioner Saito Commissioner on the 7th after the meeting with the J. League on measures liaison meeting.
The spectators contacted the team that they had a positive test after the game, and the public health center determined that there were no heavy contacts at the stadium.
Details such as when and which match was not disclosed as it relates to personal information.
According to the guidelines of professional baseball, if an infected person comes out from the audience, "If there is concern about the spread of the infection after consultation with the local government, public health center, etc., the seat information of the positive infected person will be promptly announced on the homepage of the team, etc. I will contact the seat purchaser of the company,” said the Saito commissioner, "there is no need because there are no rich contacts."