By NAMI SUGIURA/ Staff Writer
February 3, 2022 at 17:15 JST
The graph shows results of simulations conducted by a team at the Riken research institute to find infection risk of the Omicron or Delta variants of COVID-19 when people infected with these strains wear face masks and talk to other people for 15 minutes. The horizontal axis shows the distance the infected people keep from those they talk to. The vertical axis shows infection probability. The simulations were conducted in three different settings. The solid lines show average infection probability of the Omicron or Delta variants. The dashed lines show the highest or lowest infection probability of these strains. The graph was produced with the help from Toyohashi University of Technology, Daio Paper Corp., Kyoto Institute of Technology, Tokyo Institute of Technology and Kyushu University. (Provided by the Riken research institute and Kobe University)
OSAKA—The probability of infection with the Omicron variant is greatly lowered with distance, mask wearing and other measures, but the strain still spreads more easily than the Delta strain, according to Fugaku supercomputer simulations. [Read More]
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