{"id":22083,"date":"2020-08-26T18:08:11","date_gmt":"2020-08-26T09:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/26\/non-woven-masks-better-to-stop-covid-19-says-japanese-supercomputer"},"modified":"2020-08-26T18:08:11","modified_gmt":"2020-08-26T09:08:11","slug":"non-woven-masks-better-to-stop-covid-19-says-japanese-supercomputer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=22083","title":{"rendered":"Non-woven masks better to stop Covid-19, says Japanese supercomputer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Disposable medical face masks beat those made of cotton or polyester in simulation<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Face masks made from non-woven fabric are more effective at blocking the spread of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">Covid-19<\/a> via airborne respiratory droplets than other types that are commonly available, according to modelling in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/japan\">Japan<\/a> by the world\u2019s fastest supercomputer.<\/p>\n<p>Fugaku, which can perform more than 415 quadrillion computations a second, conducted simulations involving three types of mask, and found that non-woven masks were better than those made of cotton and polyester at blocking spray emitted when the wearer coughs, the Nikkei Asian Review said.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/26\/non-woven-masks-better-to-stop-covid-19-says-japanese-supercomputer\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Disposable medical face masks beat those made of cotton or polyester in simulationCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageFace masks made from non-woven fabric are more effective at blocking the spread of Covid-19 via airborne respi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,1069,88,299,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-japan","category-science","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22083"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22084,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22083\/revisions\/22084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}