“From the point of view of the fight against coronavirus, contactless turnstiles do not make much sense,” RIA Novosti quotes Jong Jae-hoon's comment on the idea of the South Korean government to install contactless turnstiles in the subway.
According to him, the contact of people with the turnstile is too superficial and makes up a small part of the danger to which metro passengers are exposed.
“The first thing to do is to ensure that passengers wear masks inside the cars and wash or disinfect their hands immediately after leaving the train,” he added.
Earlier, scientists from the University of Copenhagen published an article in the journal Nature reviews, in which they warned about the possibility of an increase in global obesity due to the pandemic of the coronavirus infection COVID-19 and quarantine measures introduced because of it.