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Measures to curb the spread of Covid-19 coronavirus throughout the world continue to affect professional sports. This Tuesday, after several days of suspension of competitions and closing of events, it was decreed that the Barcelona-Neapol of the Champions League will be played behind closed doors, among other things.

11.25. Inter-Getafe, still standing

The first leg of the second round of the Europa League between Inter Milan and Getafe can be played, for now, this Thursday behind closed doors at the San Siro Milanese stadium, despite the latest decree of the Italian Government that blocks sports events of the country due to the emergence of the coronavirus.

As reported by the Milanese club on Tuesday EFE has not yet received "different orders."

However, Italy is experiencing moments of maximum alertness and uncertainty and both Inter and Roma, which should receive Sevilla next week in the Europa League, are awaiting news and eventual changes in decisions.

10.52. The Camp Nou, closed

The Barcelona-Naples match, of the round of 16 of the Champions League that will be played on March 18 at the Camp Nou, will be played behind closed doors as a result of the spread of the coronavirus, as has been finalized after a meeting held Tuesday between representatives of the Generalitat and FC Barcelona.

"The recommendation is that the game be played behind closed doors by sanitary criteria and Barcelona has assumed it," said the General Secretary of Sports of the Generalitat, Gerard Figueras .

The measure was confirmed by Figueras and the Secretary of Public Health of Catalonia, Joan Guix , at the end of the extraordinary meeting, in which representatives of FC Barcelona, ​​the General Secretariat of Sport and the departments of Health and Interior of the Generalitat participated.

In this way, the second leg of the Champions League second leg between Barcelona and Naples (1-1 in the first leg), scheduled for next Wednesday, March 18, will be played without an audience in the stands, a fact that has not happened in the Barcelona stadium since October 1, 2017, when the club decided not to open the doors that Sunday for the Barça-Las Palmas match in which a referendum was being held for the self-determination of Catalonia, prohibited by the Justice.

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