Japan supercomputer suggests changes to travel, work amid airborne COVID-19 threat

Supercomputer-driven models simulated in Japan suggested that operating commuter trains with windows open and limiting the number of passengers ...

Even if the coronavirus is airborne, questions remain about how many infections occur through that route. How concentrated the virus is in the air may also decide contagion risks, said Kyoto University professor Yuki Furuse.

"In Japan, the committee for COVID-19 countermeasures insisted on the '3Cs' at an early stage," said Tanabe, a professor at Waseda University in Tokyo, referring to Japan's public campaign to avoid"closed spaces, crowded places and close-contact settings".As Japan tamed the pandemic, with more than 19,000 confirmed cases and 977 deaths so far, Economy Minister Yasutoshi Nishimura credited its success to the"3Cs" and its cluster-tracing strategy.

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