attempt to control the spread of the Coronavirus that is affecting the country.<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\nThe CSL 2020 campaign was scheduled to begin on February 22, but was shelved along with \u201call types of football matches\u201d in order to \u201ccarry out prevention and control of the pneumonia epidemic,\u201d the Chinese Football Association said in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The announcement comes just a few hours after the World Indoor Athletics Championships, scheduled to take place in the Chinese city of Nanjing in March, were postponed until 2021 after advice from the World Health Organisation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It becomes the latest sport to be hit by the virus which by Thursday had seen more than 7,700 cases confirmed in China with at least 170 fatalities. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
On Wednesday, World Cup skiing races, the first test events for the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, were cancelled because of the outbreak. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The men\u2019s downhill and super-G races were scheduled for February 15 and February 16 in Yanqing, 70 kilometres (45 miles) northwest of Beijing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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