The Argentina Football Association (AFF) has announced the suspension of all football activity in the country until the end of March because of the coronavirus pandemic.
In a statement, the AFF said that the decision was based on the recommendations of the minister of sports and tourism in Argentina
The president of the AFF Claudio Fabián Tapia said that all clubs have been informed with the suspension decision.
The decision came as a precautionary measure against the COVID-19 after the outbreak's rapid spread across the European continent.
The virus hit many sporting activities across the world as many countries have to cancel or halt all the sports events to combat the spread of the virus.
On Wednesday, March 11, WHO declared that the coronavirus, which is spreading around the world, a “global pandemic; however it announced the novel COVID-19 is still “controllable”.
According to the organization, the number of the COVID-19 infections outside China has doubled in the past two weeks, and the number of countries hit by the epidemic has tripled.
“We are very concerned to achieve the alarming levels of the outbreak and its severity, as well as the alarming levels of inaction,” WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said at a press conference in Geneva.
“Now, COVID-19 can be categorized as a pandemic… we have never seen a pandemic spread due to the coronavirus,” Adhanom added.
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