A5032990902- Infection Control and Ventilation
- COVID-19 epidemiological studies
- Evacuation and Crowd Dynamics
- Climate Change and Health Impacts
- COVID-19 and healthcare impacts
National Institute of Public Health
2023-2024
The importance of effective ventilation as one the measures against COVID-19 is widely recognized worldwide. In Japan, at early stage pandemic, in March 2020, an official announcement was made about basic COVID-19. WHO also used term “long-range aerosol or long-range airborne transmission” for first time December 2021. Based on infection control before 2021 by Japanese government, we conducted experiments methods related to partition placement element methods. July 2022, governmental...
Abstract COVID‐19 outbreaks occurred in several hospitals, and the National Institute of Infectious Diseases, local authorities, universities carried out investigations into ventilation hospitals. The results indicated that performance was insufficient to prevent aerosol infection due poor air conditioning, equipment maintenance, existing design guidelines. authors investigated guidelines for measures general patient wards with cooperation Society Air‐Conditioning Sanitary Engineers Japan...