Avoid crowds, wear a mask and isolate: how Japan’s coronavirus response echoes Spanish flu guidelines

As Japan deals with a coronavirus outbreak and uncertainty over whether it will be able to host this summer’s Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, interesting parallels are being made with a previous deadly pandemic: the 1918 Spanish flu. In much the same way as they did a little over a century ago, many Japanese people are wondering when the pandemic will have run its course and when their lives might return to normality. It is believed that the Spanish flu was brought into Japan in the spring of 1918,…

from South China Morning Post https://bit.ly/33DNhto