Sport Events Cancelled due to Coronavirus Outbreak

[opruh 129]

45 minutes ago, up and down said:

 

Basically China athletes by now have been barred from playing in any tournaments held in European, American, Australia and also Asian continent. A big blow to China athletes as all the countries have choosen health as their main priorities. Reason given is China athletes will spread Coronavirus so there is nothing to be done here.

Chinese short track speed skating athletes are currently competing in Germany. 

[Federer91 3,386]

China athletes are competing in Europe in many sports. It may be, because they were already there before the big outbreak and haven't been exposed to the virus. If athletes from inside China, want to come now to Europe, i think it will be a different situation. 

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1 hour ago, Vic Liu said:

 

As far as I know, China has been barred from USA, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore and the Philippines officially, and maybe also some other small countries without official notification, but I don't think Europe was included. Currently many Chinese athletes playing tournaments and practicing as main field there. Do you have any source to confirm? If so, it would be a nightmare.

 

Many countries in the European continent have started to bar China citizens from entering their country.

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1 hour ago, opruh said:

Chinese short track speed skating athletes are currently competing in Germany. 

 

1 hour ago, Vic Liu said:

 

As far as I know, China has been barred from USA, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore and the Philippines officially, and maybe also some other small countries without official notification, but I don't think Europe was included. Currently many Chinese athletes playing tournaments and practicing as main field there. Do you have any source to confirm? If so, it would be a nightmare.

 

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-02-02/coronavirus-these-countries-airlines-restrict-travel-to-china

 

The outbreak of the coronavirus has prompted dozens of nations and airlines to restrict travel, increasingly isolating the country of more than 1.3 billion people. Nearly 10,000 flights were canceled between the outbreak of the virus and Jan. 31, according to Cirium, which provides data and research on the travel industry. The World Health Organization has so far said that such limits on trade and travel aren’t needed to control the spread of the virus. Here are the countries, territories and airlines that have travel restrictions on China.

 

Australia
Australia will deny entry to anyone arriving from mainland China, except for Australian citizens, residents or their family members, and air crew. It has also warned against any travel to all of mainland China.

Australia’s largest airline Qantas Airways Ltd. will suspend services to mainland China from Feb. 9.

 

Canada
Canada advised citizens to avoid non-essential travel to China.

Air Canada has halted flights to Beijing and Shanghai. The suspension is expected to last until Feb. 29.

 

Egypt
Egypt Air indefinitely suspended flights to mainland China. The airline connects to Hangzhou, Beijing and Guangzhou.

 

Finland
Finnair will cancel all flights to and from mainland China between Feb. 6 and Feb. 29

 

France
France urged citizens not to travel to China.

Air France will exit China until Feb. 9.

 

Germany
Lufthansa suspended services to China until Feb. 9.

 

Hong Kong
Hong Kong has barred residents of China’s Hubei province, where the outbreak is centered, from entering the city. The government has appeared to open the door for more controls on travel from the mainland, with an official saying it could shorten opening times for ports, limit transportation and introduce laws to curb cross-border traffic.

Cathay Pacific will cut the capacity of its flights to China by 50% or more through March.

 

Indonesia
Indonesia is temporarily banning flights to and from mainland China from Feb. 3 and won’t allow those who have been there in recent weeks to enter or transit.

The government has suspended free visa and visa-on-arrival services for Chinese citizens living in the mainland and called on Indonesians to temporarily stop traveling there.

Indonesia has five domestic airlines flying to China: PT Garuda Indonesia, PT Citilink Indonesia, PT Lion Mentari Airlines, PT Sriwijaya Air and PT Batik Air Indonesia. The temporary flight ban applies to foreign airlines flying from China to Indonesia, including for transit.

 

India
India said Chinese passport holders and those who reside in China who have electronic visas to India won’t be able to enter.

Air India and IndiGo have suspended flights between some Indian cities and China.

 

Israel
Israel will refuse entry to foreign nationals coming from China.

Carrier El Al suspended flights to Beijing until March 25.

 

Italy
Italy suspended all flights from China, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan until Apr. 28.

 

Japan
Japan has urged its citizens not to travel to China. It has barred entry to people with symptoms of the coronavirus.

 

Kenya
Kenya Airways suspended flights to and from Guangzhou until further notice.

 

Mongolia
Mongolia closed its border with China until March 2.

 

Morocco
Royal Air Maroc suspended direct flights to China until Feb. 29.

 

Myanmar
Myanmar said it will suspend the issuance of visas-on-arrival for all visitors from China.

 

New Zealand
New Zealand will deny entry to foreigners traveling from mainland China. The ban, effective Feb. 3, covers anyone who is traveling from or has transited through China, and will last up to 14 days.

It has also raised its travel advice about all of mainland China to “do not travel,” the highest level.

Air New Zealand will cut its Shanghai service from daily to four times a week from Feb. 18 to March 31

 

Netherlands
KLM suspended direct flights to some Chinese cities and reduced the number of weekly flights to Shanghai.

 

North Korea
North Korea shut its borders to visitors from China on Jan. 22.

 

Oman
Oman’s aviation authority suspended all flights between the sultanate and China.

 

Pakistan
Pakistan stopped flights to Wuhan and Hubei, but will reopen other routes in mainland China. It had delayed opening its northern border with China, while Karachi Port Trust, operator of nation’s largest port, had asked immigration authorities not to allow crew on foreign vessels to disembark.

 

Philippines
The Philippines widened a travel ban previously imposed on visitors from Hubei province to all of China, including Hong Kong and Macau, while prohibiting Filipinos from traveling to those areas.

 

Qatar
Qatar Airways is suspending flights to China starting from Feb. 3 until further notice.

 

Russia
Russia suspended visa-free tourist travel to China and temporarily blocked Chinese citizens from reaching Russia over the Mongolian border.

It will also stop processing documents for Chinese nationals to enter Russia for jobs, along with permits to hire workers from China. Visa-free travel was part of an agreement the two nations worked out in 2018.

 

Rwanda
RwandAir halted flights to and from China and will review the decision this month.

 

Singapore
Singapore blocked the entry and transit of people who had traveled to mainland China in the previous 14 days. Visas of China citizens to visit Singapore have been suspended, including those already issued.

Singapore Airlines and SilkAir said they would reduce their frequency of service to mainland China in February due to the entry restrictions issued by the local authorities.

 

South Korea
From Feb. 4, South Korea will temporarily ban foreigners who have visited or stayed in Hubei within 14 days of entering. Seoul will also suspend its no-visa favor for Chinese tourists to Jeju Island for now. South Korea is also suspending tourism to China.

Korean Air is stopping flights to Wuhan until Feb. 22 and will reduce services on other mainland China routes. Air Seoul suspended flights indefinitely between Incheon and the Chinese cities of Zhangjiajie and Linyi.

 

Spain
Iberia Airways suspended its flight to Shanghai, the only route it operates to China, through February.

 

Taiwan
Taiwan slapped an entry ban to residents of Hubei as well as those from the southern Guangdong province. It won’t rule out extending the ban to more Chinese provinces if necessary.

Mandarin Airlines suspended flights from Taiwan to Wuhan until the end of February.

 

Tanzania
Air Tanzania postponed its maiden February flights to China from Dar es Salaam.

 

Turkey
Turkish Airlines suspended flights to Beijing, Guangzhou, Shanghai and Xi’an until Feb. 9.

 

U.K.
British Airways halted daily routes to Beijing and Shanghai. Virgin Atlantic ceased flights to Shanghai for 14 days from Feb. 1

 

U.S.
The U.S. is temporarily barring entry to foreign nationals who have visited China and pose a risk of spreading the illness, unless they are immediate relatives of U.S. citizens or permanent residents. Flights from China would be funneled through just seven U.S. airports.

The State Department issued its highest level do-not-travel advisory for China.

Delta Air Lines Inc. and American Airlines Group Inc. suspended all flights to China to as late as the end of April. United Airlines will suspend service to Beijing, Shanghai and Chengdu from Feb. 6.

 

Vietnam
Vietnam ordered companies to stop accepting Chinese workers returning to the country after the Lunar New Year holidays. The suspension also applies to foreign workers traveling through Chinese regions affected by the outbreak.

The aviation authority canceled all flight permits and suspended new flight licenses for airlines operating between the country and China.

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@Vic Liu

 

From the examples that I have given above, a lot of European countries have started to bar China citizens from entering their countries. Thus far American, Asia, Austrlia and Europen Continent have imposed bar on China citizens from entering their countries.

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@Vic Liu

 

https://www.schengenvisainfo.com/news/coronavirus-eu-to-restrict-entry-for-chinese-nationals/

 

Coronavirus: EU to Restrict Entry for Chinese Nationals 

 

Following the intensification of the Coronavirus outbreak, the European Union has moved on to take the necessary steps to prevent a possible spread of the virus in its territory.

 

Europe has taken measures at a time when eight cases of infected persons were detected within its territory, four of which in France and four others in Germany, by activating a mechanism that enables the member states to improve prevention, preparedness and response to disasters, both natural and man-made.

 

Within the frame of this mechanism’s activation, the EU may go to extra lengths to prevent the virus from further spreading into its territory.

Sources of SchengenVisaInfo.com within the European Union have confirmed that the block is preparing to tighten entry conditions for Chinese nationals and those who have traveled to China in recent months, in a bid to prevent the situation getting out of control.

 

“Immediately after the outbreak of the Coronavirus, representatives of the Member States have been summoned by France, where by the way, have already been detected at least two cases of Coronavirus infection. The block has already decided to activate the EU Civil Protection Mechanism, but if the virus keeps spreading at the current tempo, the EU may introduce entry restrictions by the end of the week to Chinese nationals and recent visitors to mainland China,” one of the sources said.

 

The source could not, however, give any assurance whether by “entry restrictions” the EU was planning to bar nationals of the affected countries from entering, or only by imposing more screening procedures.

 

“Suspension of visa issuance for the nationals of a few countries in addition to China, is also an option, if the situation does not improve for the better, of course,” the source confirms.

 

EU’s move comes immediately after three Asian countries restricted visa issuance to Chinese nationals. These countries are Sri Lanka, Malaysia, and Kazakhstan. Immediately after them the Philippines and Singapore followed announcing visa restrictions for residents of the Hubei province.

 

EU Activates Civil Protection Mechanism
On Tuesday, January 28, the European Commission announced a decision of the block to activate the EU Civil Protection Mechanism following a request for assistance from France to provide consular support to EU citizens in Wuhan, China.

 

“As the Coronavirus outbreak intensifies, the EU Civil Protection Mechanism has been activated on request from France. Two planes will be mobilized to repatriate EU citizens from the Wuhan area to Europe,” the European Commission announced first through twitter.

 

EU Commissioner for Crisis Management Janez Lenarčič announced in a press release of the Commission that two aircraft will be mobilized through the EU Civil

Protection Mechanism to repatriate EU citizens from the Wuhan area to Europe.

 

“Our EU Emergency Response Coordination Centre is working 24/7 and is in constant contact with the Member States, the EU Delegations in the region and the Chinese embassy in Brussels. Further EU support can be mobilized if requested,” he said.

 

Whereas, the Commissioner responsible for Health and Food Security Stella Kyriakides said that the Commission stands ready to support the Member States and ensure a strong and coordinated EU response to the developing situation of the Coronavirus, outside and within the Union.

 

“We will continue to monitor the situation closely with the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control and remain in close contact with our Member States,” she said.

 

The EU Civil Protection Mechanism is a tool that strengthens cooperation between the Member States and the Participating States in the field of civil protection, with a view to improving prevention, preparedness and response to disasters.

 

When the scale of an emergency overwhelms the response capabilities of a country, it can request assistance via the Mechanism. Once activated, the Mechanism coordinates assistance made available by its Member States/Participating States through spontaneous offers.

 

EU Airlines and Airports’ Response to Coronavirus Outbreak
British Airways has become the first airline to suspend all flights to mainland China, following a warning of the UK Foreign Office to its citizens on travel to China.

 

“We have suspended all flights to and from mainland China with immediate effect following advice from the Foreign Office against all but essential travel,” the company said in a statement.

 

Whereas, a senior press expert from the Stuttgart Airport told SchengenVisaInfo.com that currently there are no restraints due to the virus as the Stuttgart Airport has no direct flights to China, Japan or adjacent countries.

 

“So far, the authorities in charge do not have imposed any measures, nor do we know about upcoming requirements. In order to inform our passengers and visitors in the terminal building, posters in German, English, and Chinese give advice regarding hygiene,” the expert said.

 

The deadly Coronavirus has expanded to almost 20 countries, while the death toll had reached over 130 people and about 6000 cases have been reported.

 

The Chinese city of Wuhan, home to 11 million in residents, in the Hubei province is the epicenter of the disease, which as of January 23, 2020, has been shut down. Airports and railways in Wuhan have also shut down to prevent a further spread of the virus.

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damn you CoronaVirus!! 

Edited February 17, 2020 by Dnl

[Shravan Kumar 111]

Chinese Anti-Doping Agency suspends testing from Feb. 3.

 

Could this be a problem?

[Vic Liu 1,701]

2 minutes ago, Shravan Kumar said:

Chinese Anti-Doping Agency suspends testing from Feb. 3.

 

Could this be a problem?

 

Yes it could. But athletes are still responsible to report their location and WADA still can send people from other place to test them. Time to see who are the bravest professionals.

[Fly_like_a_don 1,162]

Looks like China could face a ban from Tokyo Olympics