China has delayed the start of its domestic football season because of the escalation of the coronavirus, which has claimed at least 170 lives.

The Super League, which features ex-Premier League players including Yaya Toure, Marouane Fellaini, Oscar, Marko Arnautovic and Salomon Rondon, was due to run from 22 February to 31 October.

A new starting date for the season has not yet been announced.

Oher sporting events in China have also been affected by the crisis.

The men's alpine skiing World Cup races in China, scheduled for 15 and 16 February in Yanqing, have been cancelled.

The 2020 World Athletics Indoor Championships, due to be held from 13-15 March in Nanjing, have been pushed back 12 months after World Athletics sought advice from the World Health Organisation.

Formula 1 says it is "monitoring" the effects of the outbreak in China in the context of the country's Grand Prix in Shanghai from 17-19 April.

The all-electric Formula E series is also due to hold a race in Sanya, southern China, on 21 March and Formula E says it is also "closely monitoring" the situation in tandem with local authorities.

In a statement, the China Football Association said their move to postpone the "2020 season national football competitions at all levels" was taken to help with the "prevention and control of the pneumonia epidemic of the new coronavirus infection, and to protect the health of the majority of fans, media, players, coaches, game officials, clubs and district staff".

In Australia, China's women's football team has been forced into quarantine at a hotel in Brisbane, Queensland, after the state recorded its first case of coronavirus.

A 44-year-old man from Wuhan - the Chinese city at the centre of the outbreak - is in isolation at the Gold Coast University Hospital, south of Brisbane.

The China team had been due to open the Women's Olympic football tournament qualifiers with a match against Thailand in Sydney on Monday.

Ticket sales for the tournament have now been suspended.

The death toll of the coronavirus has risen to 170 and with a confirmed case in Tibet, the virus has now spread to every region in mainland China.

Chinese health authorities have said there were 7,711 confirmed cases in the country as of 29 January and infections have also spread to at least 16 other countries.

The Foreign Office updated its advice on Tuesday to warn against all but essential travel to mainland China, saying it may also become more difficult for British nationals in other provinces to leave.

On Wednesday, British Airways announced it was suspending all flights to and from mainland China with immediate effect.

https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/51306776

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I order for some cloth and other accessories from China that will be arriving soon is there any chance of contacting the corona virus via contact if infected person handled packaging or does the virus die.
Pls enlighten me about the virus.
Thanks

Yaya Toure now in China ? How times flies .

It is well oh

It will affect everything. I wonder how people live over there with fear in mind.

Better. I have told my bros to postpone his planned travel to China by next week but he is reluctant about my advice. I understand though.

Nawa

Shiii is getting seriously serious!
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What will happen to ighalo now?

God go save them

ogbiwa:
China has delayed the start of its domestic football season because of the escalation of the coronavirus, which has claimed at least 170 lives.

The Super League, which features ex-Premier League players including Yaya Toure, Marouane Fellaini, Oscar, Marko Arnautovic and Salomon Rondon, was due to run from 22 February to 31 October.

A new starting date for the season has not yet been announced.

Oher sporting events in China have also been affected by the crisis.

The CIA has a hand in this

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People will create virus and give it a name but tell us there is no cure for it. How? How did they come about the name?

Soon now they will come up with the vaccine and become billions of dollars richer after sacrificing many as unfortunate specimens/victims.

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Goosh, this situation is out of hand oo

I order for some cloth and other accessories from China that will be arriving soon is there any chance of contacting the corona virus via contact if infected person handled packaging or does the virus die.
Pls enlighten me about the virus.
Thanks

China passing through hard times...


I pity them.

Why China and not Saudi Arabia and all those terrorist sponsoring nations killing innocent people and destroying global peace in the name of religion


Why China that's helping the world become better and creating so many millionaires all over the world, why why why

their own better because it is only one way to die in China.



Mean while, somewhere in West Africa, there are a thousand ways to die! I'm f it is not kidnappers, it will be Boko Haram or even in the hands of SARS and clueless police men

I really dont understand what this world is...full of evil and sadness, aids,ebola, tribal and religious wars,crime, hatred etc..

Imagine enjoying life in china, suddenly everyone is supposed to be hiding like a rat because of corona virus. Na wah!...

Honestly i dont know why we were created into such world only to die at the end.

sometimes you best understand the emptiness of this world when u smoke we:ed

LET ME STOP HERE B4 I RUN MAD

kgr8mike:
People will create virus and give it a name but tell us there is no cure for it. How? How did they come about the name?

Soon now they will come up the vaccine and become billions of dollars richer after sacrificing many as unfortunate specimens/victims.

u juss spoke my mind..

Good 1


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I have spoken

A nigga once said:all these experiment gone wrong virus that keep coming up....
God help us as we try to help ourself..