Coronavirus: Germany Halts Bundesliga, 2nd Division until April 30

Germany’s government decided on Tuesday to suspend Germany’s Bundesliga and second pision until the end of April because of coronavirus pandemic.

This came as an extension to the suspension decision of all the football activities across the country, which were made on March 19, as the competitions were delayed until April 3.

All the German clubs in the Bundesliga and 2nd pision are set to hold a conference meeting on March 31 to discuss the suspension of the football activities.

During a meeting, the German football league (DFL) took the decision in an attempt to fight the COVID-19.

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.

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.