Professional Baseball Commissioner Saito Willingness to Increase the Audience Limit for the Japan Series October 19 14:39
A liaison conference on countermeasures against the new coronavirus was held by professional baseball and soccer J-League, and Commissioner Atsushi Saito of professional baseball welcomed the nearly full spectators to enter the Yokohama Stadium and welcomed the demonstration experiment in Japan. He showed his willingness to raise the upper limit of the number of spectators in the series.
Since last month, professional baseball and J-League have held games with spectators up to half the capacity of the venue, but Kanagawa Prefecture and DeNA are professional baseball games held at Yokohama Stadium, and the upper limit of the spectator capacity is Will be set to 80% on the 30th of this month, 90% on the 31st, and 100% on the 1st of next month, and a demonstration experiment will be conducted to verify infection prevention measures and their effects using the latest technology. ..
At the countermeasures liaison meeting on the 19th, information was shared about this demonstration experiment, and the commissioner of professional baseball Saito said at a press conference after the meeting, "The theme is to carry out actual social activities while suppressing risks as much as possible. There is no choice but to do it, whether it will be accepted until then, and how dangerous it will be, "he said, and welcomed the demonstration experiment with an eye on increasing the number of spectators.
Regarding the number of spectators in the Japan Series from the 21st of next month, Commissioner Saito said, "In the current situation, it is not possible to say that this is 50% or more without permission." There are a lot of people, so I'd be happy if it's 60%, 70%, or 80%. I often talk to the officials. I want to make sure that as many people as possible can enter safely. " Showed motivation to raise.