Japan to test anti-virus steps for big events at near-full stadium

Japan will test measures for preventing the spread of the coronavirus at events with large numbers of spectators in a trial late this month in a baseball stadium in Yokohama packed to near capacity, officials said Thursday.The three-day trial from Oct. 30 comes as the government considers whether to relax current limits on the number of people allowed to attend sporting and other big events.Japan last month raised the limit to 10,000 from 5,000 but retained a ceiling of 50 percent of a venue's capacity for events with over 10,000 spectators, such as professional baseball games, effective th…READ FULL ARTICLE