Posted on 03/28/2020 3:55:14 PM PDT by NoLibZone
BEIJING, Jan. 22 (Xinhua) -- The Asian Football Confederation (AFC) confirmed on Wednesday that next month's Olympic women's football qualifying matches would be moved from Wuhan to Nanjing, amid concerns over the spread of the ongoing coronavirus outbreak.
With the 2019-nCoV virus having spread across several Chinese provinces and 440 cases confirmed, Chinese authorities have urged people not to travel to or from Wuhan, where the virus was first reported in late December.
The central Chinese city was scheduled to host all matches in Group B of the 2020 Olympic women's qualifiers, with China, Australia, Chinese Taipei and Thailand included in the group.
"At the request of the Chinese Football Association, the AFC is now moving the 2020 Olympic Asian women's football Group B qualifying matches from Wuhan to Jiangning Sports Training Center in Nanjing, in China's Jiangsu Province," Asian football's governing body confirmed on social media.
The AFC women's football qualifiers for the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo consist of two groups, with South Korea hosting Vietnam and Myanmar in Group A.
The top two teams from each qualifying group will advance to a play-off round to determine which two Asian teams will join hosts Japan at the Games.
"Because it comes form China."
Attack away ting ting trolls.
That’s a flashback worth revisiting, because it is relevant to now for sure. 8>)
That is the best name. Wuhan
Good catch.
i prefer chinese flu...
Superb discovery. How did you find it?
While the virus was spreading in China; Congress and the MSM were spending nearly 100% of their time and resources on tying up the President with a bogus impeachment process.
Can you imagine the reactions, if Trump had tried to institute ‘shelter-in-place’ during those hearings? I can’t — it completely boggles the mind.
When blame is being apportioned; the instigators of the impeachment farce must be given a huge slice.
Bkmrk
Are the Chinese racist?
The WuFlu for short.
Full name:
The Xi Jinping Chinese Communist Party Flu.
Not to defend China (see my other posts if you think I’m a China apologist), but “Wuhan virus” means a virus that is in Wuhan, whereas the Proper Noun “Wuhan Virus” is giving the virus a name. The headline uses the first form (virus that is in Wuhan).
Virus that is in Wuhan and later became the virus that is in Italy,Spain,NTC...
Agree on that...they are implying that they had it first!
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