Tokyo Marathon Foundation cancels annual race amid coronavirus outbreak

Tokyo Marathon Foundation on Monday said that y are cancelling amateur portion of marathon that was scheduled to be held on March 1, over fear about spre of new coronavirus. Tokyo Marathon Foundation on Monday released a public statement where y said that event will w be held for elite runners and elite wheelchair participants only. decision came amid spre of COVID-19 which has killed more than 1,800 people in China and at least one in Japan. 

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Tokyo Marathon Foundation in its statement said, "Organisers have been preparing for Tokyo Marathon 2020 (Sunday, March 1) while implementing preventive safety measures, however, w that case of COVID-19 has been confirmed within Tokyo, we cant continue to launch event within scale we originally anticipated." foundation in its statement furr informed that Family Run 2020, Friendship Run 2020, 1MILEs 2020 and or amateur events have been called off due to outbreak. 

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Coronavirus outbreak

According to media reports, new coronavirus has infected more than 71,000 people in China since it first broke out in December last year. United States Center for Disease Control (CDC) h earlier said that virus has alrey spre to 27 countries, including as far as western Europe. As per reports, coronavirus originated from a seafood market in China's Wuhan city, believed epicentre of disease. Media reports also stated that animals were being tred illegally in market from where disease originated.

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coronavirus has claimed more lives than its predecessor Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS). According to reports, SARS, which broke out in China in 2002-2003 h claimed more than 774 lives, which is way below current death toll from COVID-19. According to reports, China on February 13 reported highest number of deaths caused by virus in a single day as 254 people died in Hubei province. 

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