YOKOHAMA, Japan (AP) — Officials in Japan are using some high-tech devices to see if they can fill sports stadiums closer to capacity during the COVID-19 pandemic. The baseball stadium in Yokohama will be used this weekend in an experiment to see if its capacity of 32,000 can be reached. Officials are using high-precision cameras, carbon dioxide-monitoring devices and wind-speed measuring machines as part of countermeasures against COVID-19. The results will be passed on to government officials and to Tokyo Olympic organizers as they prepare for next year's postponed games. The Yokohama baseball stadium will be used as a venue for the Olympics.
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Atsuhiro Tanabe, a part-time stadium crew member, wipes seats of a baseball stadium, home for the Yokohama DeNA BayStars, seen during a media tour in Yokohama, south of Tokyo on Friday, Oct. 30, 2020. The tour was held to introduce device installed at the stadium to record behaviors of baseball audience members during a game for coronavirus control. (AP Photo/Hiro Komae)
Posted at 6:29 AM, Oct 30, 2020
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