Professional baseball representatives' meeting Confirmation of precautions for infection prevention on benches, etc. October 19, 20:20
A representative meeting of 12 professional baseball teams was held to confirm precautions to prevent infection with the new coronavirus on benches and other places.
At the countermeasures liaison meeting on the morning of the 19th, there was an interim report from an epidemiological expert who is analyzing a series of cases of infected people in Hanshin and Lotte.
Among them, experts pointed out that caution is required, such as avoiding loud conversations even on the bench during the game.
For this reason, at the 12 team representatives' meeting, we reconfirmed the precautions to prevent infection in and around the bench, and when some teams form a circle in front of the bench and make a voice, all the players mask It means that measures such as wearing a mask were introduced.
NPB = Nippon Professional Baseball has decided to take a questionnaire about infection countermeasures that will be taken on the bench for all baseball teams in the future, and Secretary General Atsushi Ihara said, "In each baseball team, substitute players, managers, and coaches wear masks. However, there were places where we went one step further. We would like to share information on specific measures. "
In addition, at the conference, DeNA and Kanagawa Prefecture announced a policy to compile a report by the end of November about the demonstration experiment that will be conducted from 30th this month with a nearly full audience at Yokohama Stadium.
According to NPB, other teams are considering similar demonstration experiments.