Coronavirus may wipe out crunch football games as the vaccine is MONTHS away, Health Secretary Matt Hancock admits
CORONAVIRUS could wipe out crunch football games as ministers look at banning big public events, it was revealed today.
"Under the worst-case scenario, we would have to take quite significant action that would have economic disruption," Mr Hancock told the BBC.been confirmed in Britain - including at least one who caught the disease in Britainbetween Ireland and virus-plagued ItalyMillions could be told to work from home to stop it spreading further in emergency plans under consideration
He also cast into doubt the information coming from other countries such as China and Iran on coronavirus - amid fears they are suppressing the true number of people affected."We update [our] figures all the time... but we don't say any of those figures are concrete and definitive."Credit: PA:Empics SportExperts have warned that desperate moves to contain the Covid-19 outbreak could decimate all sport across the UK for months.
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