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Coronavirus Daily: PL won't resume in May; Barca vice-president 'tests positive'

  /  Rick

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

- OFFICIAL: PL won't resume at beginning of May & will only return when it's safe

- Barca vice-president Jordi Cardoner tests positive for Coronavirus (MD)

- Serie A scraps initial target of resuming the season at the end of May

- Serie A plan to conclude the season on July 2 if games resume on May 20 (CdS)

- Xavi donates €1m to Hospital Clinic in Barcelona for fighting the coronavirus

- Auba 'joins Henderson talks as PL wage reduction deal edges closer'

- Szczesny 'leaves Italy and returns to Poland', the 8th Juve player abroad

Cases & Deaths

Global

1,138,646 cases (+104,560), 61,142 deaths (+12,564)

Countries with Top 5 Leagues

UK: 41,903 cases (+8,185), 4,313 deaths (+1,961)

Spain: 124,736 cases (+7,026), 11,744 deaths (+809)

Italy: 119,827 cases (+ 4,585), 14,681 deaths (+766)

Germany: 91,589 cases (+5,686), 1,293 deaths (+171)

France: 82,165 cases (+ 23,060), 6,507 deaths (+1,120)

Other main countries

USA: 277,607 cases (+32,165), 7,406 deaths (+1,308)

China: 81,639 cases (+19), 3,326 deaths (+4)

Iran: 55,743 cases (+2,560), 3,452 deaths (+158)

South Korea: 10,156 cases (+94), 177 deaths (+3)

Japan: 2,935 cases (+318), 69 deaths (+6)

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

Other main updates

- France's daily cases growth have reached 23k and total cases pass China

- Spain's daily death toll falls as 809 deaths from coronavirus over the past 24 hours, down from 932 in the previous period

- China pauses to mourn more than 3,000 patients and medical staff died during the country’s coronavirus outbreak

- Coronavirus cases in USA top 250,000 with more than 6,500 deaths

- Coronavirus cases in Italy continue to stabilise despite another 762 deaths

- Latest update on coronavirus around the world day by day