The Japanese Football League resumed its activities today, Saturday, behind closed doors, after stopping for about four months due to the emerging Corona virus.
For its part, Mexico, one of the countries most affected by "Covid-19" in terms of deaths, has resumed football activity under strict sanitary measures.
The Gay League football league has become the second major sports championship in Japan to resume activity after being suspended due to the pandemic, after the baseball league which returned to its matches on June 19.
And nine matches of the Football League were held on Saturday without an audience, after subjecting the players and the technical equipment of the clubs to prior checks to reveal "Covid-19".
The season started last February, but it stopped after the first stage only because of the "Covid-19" outbreak.
As of July 10, the authorities will allow the presence of a number of fans on the stadiums, up to five thousand people, or 50 percent of the capacity.
They will be required to wear medical masks and wash their hands frequently.
The Japanese government recently lifted the state of emergency imposed to cope with the "Covid-19" outbreak, knowing that the pandemic led to the suspension of various activities in the country, and caused the postponement of the Summer Olympics that was scheduled in Tokyo this summer, to the summer of 2021.
On the other hand, and after nearly four months of suspension, football activities in Mexico resumed with two games Friday, in a friendly tournament involving eight clubs, spread over two cities.
The two matches were held under strict health procedures, including sterilization, preventing the fans from attending and adopting separating spaces between the players and the journalists.
And "Covid-19" has caused the death of about 30 thousand people in Mexico since late February, while more than 245 thousand declared injuries were recorded in the country.