AFP looks at the effects on sport of the coronavirus, which by Friday had killed over 5,000 people while infecting more than 134,000 in 120 countries and territories.
FOOTBALL
-- English Premier League suspended all fixtures until April 4, with matches in the English Football League, Women's Super League, all Scottish football and international friendlies for England and Wales also postponed.
-- Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta and Chelsea winger Callum Hudson-Odoi tested positive for COVID-19.
-- Spanish club Real Madrid's players were put in quarantine as La Liga announced Spain's top two divisions will be suspended for at least two weeks.
-- UEFA postponed all Champions League and Europa League games next week.
-- In Italy, the hardest-hit European country with 1,016 deaths from COVID-19, all sporting events including Serie A have been suspended until April 3. On Wednesday, Juventus defender Daniele Rugani became the first Serie A footballer to test positive with Sampdoria forward Manolo Gabbiadini announcing that he had contracted the virus on Thursday.
South American World Cup qualifiers have been postponed, as was the next round of the Copa Libertadores.
-- French football has been suspended "until further notice", with the German Bundesliga also put on hold.
-- The Netherlands' Eredivisie has been suspended until March 31.
-- Three UEFA Europa League games on Thursday including Manchester United away to LASK Linz had no fans.
-- The Netherlands' friendly against Spain set for March 29 cancelled. The United States has called off friendlies against the Dutch on March 26 and Wales (March 30).
-- Other international friendlies to be played behind closed doors include France v Ukraine and Germany v Italy.
-- The start of Japan's J-League was postponed till mid-March while China suspended all domestic football and shelved indefinitely the top-flight Super League season.
-- The French League Cup final between Paris Saint-Germain and Lyon has been called off, with no new date yet fixed, as has the Spanish Copa del Rey final between Real Sociedad and Athletic Bilbao.
-- A Euro 2020 warm-up tournament in Qatar featuring Portugal, Belgium, Croatia and Switzerland, has been cancelled.
-- South American World Cup qualifiers have been postponed, as was the next round of the Copa Libertadores.
-- The FIFA Congress, due to take place in Addis Ababa on June 5, was pushed back to September 18.
TENNIS
-- The ATP has suspended its tour for six weeks "due to escalating health and safety issues".
The ATP and WTA Miami Open was called off after Miami-Dade County Mayor Carlos Gimenez declared a state of emergency over the outbreak.
-- The prestigious ATP and WTA Indian Wells tournament was cancelled, the first major sports event in the US to be shelved because of the outbreak.
-- The inaugural Fed Cup Finals scheduled for next month in Budapest were postponed.
GOLF
-- The year's opening men's major, the Masters at Augusta National scheduled for April 9-12, has been postponed.
-- The Players Championship was cancelled after Thursday's first round, with all PGA Tour events off until after the Masters.
-- European Tour chiefs postponed the Maybank Championship in Malaysia and the China Open in Shenzhen -- both set for April, and this week's Kenyan Open.
-- The US LPGA Tour cancelled all three of its lucrative early-season events in Asia, and also its next three events in the United States.
-- The Indian Open in New Delhi, set for March 19-22, was postponed on Wednesday.
ATHLETICS
-- The World Indoor Championships, scheduled for Nanjing from March 13-15, were postponed until next year.
-- The Paris Marathon, scheduled for April 5 with 60,000 registered runners, was postponed until October 18.
-- Next month's London Marathon has also been postponed until October.
-- The Barcelona Marathon, which was scheduled for March 15 with 17,000 runners, was postponed until October 4.
-- Boston Marathon moved from April 20 to September 14.
CYCLING
-- The Giro d'Italia, the first Grand Tour of the season, was put on hold on Friday.
-- The spring classic Milan-San Remo, scheduled for March 21, was postponed, having only previously been cancelled three times since the inaugural edition in 1907.
-- The Strade Bianchi, the first big race of the Italian cycling season set for last Saturday, was also cancelled along with the multi-day Tirreno-Adriatico.
-- This month's Tour of Cataluyna has been postponed, organisers announced on Thursday.
