Coronavirus Daily: 10 Valencia players & staff 'recovered'; Global cases near 1M

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All Football brings you the daily summary of the biggest developments in the global coronavirus outbreak and how it is affecting football.

Top news in football

- 10 Valencia players & staff who tested positive for coronavirus 'have recovered'

- Serie A training ban extended until mid-April due to coronavirus pandemic.

Dybala: Some Juventus members did not want to take pay cut at first.

Paulo Dybala has confessed that some members of the Juventus squad did not want to take a pay cut at first, but captain Giorgio Chiellini took a proactive role.

- UEFA have reportedly drawn up a calendar to try and get the Champions League finished in August, and are considering a mini four-team tournament to end it.

- Gerrard donates £5,000 to help Liverpool foodbanks amid coronavirus crisis.

Club Brugge are set to be crowned Belgian champions after the Jupiler Pro League's board of directors recommended the season should be ended early because of the coronavirus pandemic.

Cases & Deaths

Global

955,301 cases (+80,674), 48,578 deaths (+5,147)

Countries with Top 5 Leagues

UK: 29,474 cases (+4,324), 2,352 deaths (+563)

Spain: 110,238 cases (+8,102), 10003 deaths (+950)

Italy: 110,574 cases (+4,782), 13,155 deaths (+727)

Germany: 79,465 cases (+6,651), 959 deaths (+166)

France: 56,989 cases (+4,861), 4,032 deaths (+509)

Other main countries

USA: 215,357 cases (+26,718), 4,059 deaths (+1,054)

China: 81,589 cases (+35), 3,318 deaths (+6)

Iran: 50,468 cases (+2,875), 3,160 deaths (+)

South Korea: 9,976 cases (+89), 169 deaths (+4)

Japan: 2,384 cases (+106), 57 deaths (-)

*All the stats and updates are recorded before 13:30 CET today.

Other main updates

- The Wimbledon Championships, which were set to be held from June 28 to July 11 are canceled.

- Philippine president says lockdown violators could be shot

The president of the Philippines, Rodrigo Duterte, has warned violators of coronavirus lockdown measures they could be shot for causing trouble and said abuse of medical workers was a serious crime that would not be tolerated.

- A 6-week-old baby died from complications related to COVID-19 in Connecticut US.

The U.S. has passed 200,000 COVID-19 cases, according to the Johns Hopkins Dashboard. Over 4,500 people have died and over 8,400 people have recovered from the virus.

- U.S. now has more fatalities than China, Americans should be ready for “100,000 deaths”

- Russia records largest single-day rise in coronavirus cases

Officials said they had identified 771 new cases of coronavirus in the past day, a 28% increase from the previous day that brings the country’s total number of infected to 3,548.

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