The research group of Professor Takeshi Tanigawa, Senior Associate Professor Hiroo Wada, and Associate Professor Genki Endo of Juntendo University Graduate School of Medicine will start research on measures to prevent community-acquired infection of the new coronavirus at restaurants.Infection control guidelines (tentative name) based on the four countermeasure elements of mask, smoking, hand disinfection, and ventilation revealed in the field survey of restaurants, etc. conducted in Ginza, Chuo-ku, Tokyo as the preliminary stage of the research. Aim to formulate.
According to Juntendo University, the World Health Organization (WHO) has acknowledged the possibility of airborne infections through conversation and exhalation, but a research group conducted a survey in Ginza found that disinfection of fingers remained only at the entrance. There were many cases of spending a long time with the mask removed when eating, drinking or smoking.
It was also found that it was difficult to open windows and doors and proper ventilation was difficult because the night shop was regulated by the wind business law so that the inside could not be seen from the outside.In addition, there were no standardized guidelines for night shops, and many people were confused because they did not know what measures to take.
Therefore, the research group hypothesized that airborne infection of the new corona would occur through conversation, exhalation, and smoking, and assumed that the risk of airborne infection would increase not only in non-separated night shops but also in the smoking areas of restaurants. ..We examined what kind of measures are effective for the four elements of mask, smoking, hand disinfection, and ventilation, and decided to summarize the results in the guideline.
