This was reported by journalist Vasily Konov in his Telegram channel.
Thus, the tournament was stopped after the seventh round, when the leaders of the tournament table were Russian Yan Nepomnyashchy and Frenchman Maxim Vashye-Lagrav, who scored 4.5 points each.
On March 11, WHO announced an outbreak of the new coronavirus pandemic. Currently, more than 460 thousand infected in the world, over 21 thousand people have died.
Earlier, the organizing committee of OI-2020 in Tokyo spoke about the consequences of the postponement of the Olympics due to the coronavirus.