INTER MILAN’S clash with Sampdoria tomorrow night has been postponed due to coronavirus fears.
Verona vs Cagliaria and Atalanta vs Sassuolo will also not go ahead, with Italian Sports Minister Vincenzo Spadafora announcing that all sporting activity in Lombardy and Veneto is to be rearranged.
Inter’s clash with Sampdoria at the San Siro has been postponed over coronavirus fearsCredit: Getty Images – Getty
More than 40 other games had already been called off earlier today… including the Serie B clash between Ascoli and Cremonese.
The postponements come in the wake of an amateur footballer from Lodi being hospitalised with the disease.
The 38-year-old Italian amateur player diagnosed with coronavirus is “in a very serious condition in hospital” according to his parents, as reported by fanpage.it.
His father said: “He was already not well, but he was not in intensive care, he was in the ward.
“He had a fever on Sunday, he had a fever on Monday. He was admitted to the emergency room on Tuesday morning, then he was discharged – but when he got home he was not well and returned with a fever at 40.”
It has led to shops and restaurants being closed down in Codogno, where he plays his football.
Two people have died in the region so far – a 77-year-old and a 67-year-old. Twenty-nine people have been diagnosed with coronavirus in Italy.
Retired bricklayer Adriano Trevisan, 77, died in hospital in Padua on Friday evening.
The father-of-three had been admitted to hospital for another health issue 10 days ago, according to authorities.
A second patient, an Italian woman whose identity is yet to be released, died hours later in Lombardy.
Coronavirus has killed more than 2,100 people to date and infected at least 76,000 others.
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Source: Soccer - thesun.co.uk
