"100% spectators will be possible from next season" Expert at professional baseball / J-League conference November 2, 14:55
A liaison conference on countermeasures against the new coronavirus was held by professional baseball and soccer J.League, and one of the infectious disease experts said, "Since we have a lot of scientific data, we will have 100% spectators from next season. Is possible. "
Currently, half of the capacity of professional baseball and J-League is the upper limit of the number of spectators, but for three days up to one day, the effect of infection control is to include spectators who exceed the limit in the games hosted by professional baseball and DeNA. Efforts were made to verify the situation, and on the 1st, 27,850 people, 86% of the capacity, visited Yokohama Stadium.
In addition to this, the countermeasure liaison meeting on the 2nd will use the latest technology in the Tokyo Dome Giants match on the 7th and 8th of this month and the final of the J League Cup on the 7th of this month at the New National Stadium. It was reported that the infection countermeasures would be verified.
At the meeting after the meeting, Professor Hiroshige Mikamo of Aichi Medical University Graduate School said, "Since we have a lot of scientific data, I want 100% of the audience to come next season, and I think it is actually possible. We have entered the next stage of what we should do to make everyone feel at ease and convinced us to come to the venue. ”He said that it would be possible to remove the spectator limit from next season.
In addition, Mitsuo Kaku, a specially appointed professor at Tohoku Medical and Pharmaceutical University, said, "Based on solid data, we will demonstrate how much 50% means, whether 90% is not good, and how to increase it to 90%. We have entered the next stage of doing well, "he said, and after continuing to collect data, he said that he should proceed with analysis to raise the upper limit of the number of spectators.