Germany's government decided on Monday to suspend Germany's Bundesliga and second pision until at least April 2 and close all the stadiums due to the concerns over coronavirus.
This decision came within the framework of the efforts, exerted by the government to combat the virus (COVID-19).
The government decided to close all the stadiums, alongside swimming pools and gyms until the risk of coronavirus outbreak passes.
During a meeting in Frankfurt, the German clubs agreed on suspending all the domestic competition, including Bundesliga and second pision, until April 2.
On his part, the CEO of the "Deutsche Fußball Liga" (DFL) Christian Seifert said the competitions could not be resumed on April 3.
"I want to stress that we do not expect to play on April 3. This is the most difficult period of our professional life. We live in a time of extreme uncertainty," Seifert said during a press conference.
Many countries across the world decided to suspend all the domestic sports to combat the virus, which claimed thousands of lives worldwide.
On March 13, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced Europe as the world’s COVID-19 pandemic epicentre, as cases in Italy and other nations on the continent soared.
Earlier today, the Ministry of Health in Spain announced that 1000 infected coronavirus cases were recorded in the last 24 hours across the country.
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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