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Coronavirus: Several football games in Italy called off after second death – BBC Sport, BBC News

Coronavirus: Several football games in Italy called off after second death – BBC Sport, BBC News
                    

A man wearing a surgical mask walks along a deserted street in the Italian town of Codogno

                

                

The Italian town of Codogno has been placed on lockdown in an attempt to limit the spread of the virus

A number of football matches in Italy have been postponed over fears of the spread of coronavirus.

A woman from the northern region of Lombardy
is the second person in Italy to die from the virus in the past hours.

Cremonese’s Serie B match against Ascoli and Piacenza v Sambenedettese in Serie C are among those postponed.

Serie D matches and a number of amateur and youth games in the Lombardy and Veneto regions are also called off.

The Cremonese squad had already traveled to Ascoli’s Cino e Lillo Del Duca Stadium in the central Marche region of the country before being informed that the game had been postponed.

Several towns in the Lombardy region have been placed on lockdown, with schools and offices closed and residents urged to stay away from accident and emergency departments.

The new virus, which originated last year in the Hubei province in China, causes a respiratory disease called Covid-

China has reported 200, (cases of the virus, including 2, deaths.

Outside China, more than 1, cases of the virus have been confirmed in 90 countries and there have been at least eight deaths, according to the World Health Organization.

 

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