Tokyo subway operator is betting on 'silver bullet' to fend off virus

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Its rail network of about 900 stations and roughly 85 lines has seen passenger numbers approach pre-virus levels. FMTNews Tokyo

A Tokyo Metro worker sprays chemicals to make anti-virus coating inside a passenger car at its depot today.

Tokyo’s labyrinthine rail network of about 900 stations and roughly 85 lines has seen passenger numbers approach pre-virus levels since the city’s de facto lockdown was lifted in late May. Tokyo Metro, the city’s main subway operator, has begun spraying its nearly 3,000 cars with a super-fine atomisation of a silver-based compound, taking advantage of silver’s anti-antimicrobial properties to repel the virus from surfaces.

After the end of daily operations, masked cleaners hauling motorised atomisers stride through carriages, spraying straps, poles, seats and windows with a mist of 10-micron droplets, roughly the size of a grain of pollen.

 

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