S.Korea baseball season suspended as toughest curbs in force in Seoul
The Peninsula
SEOUL: South Korea's baseball league on Monday suspended its season for a month, as the country's toughest anti-COVID curbs took effect in Seoul in an attempt to quell its worst-ever outbreak.
The postponement comes as starting on Monday the government imposed the strictest level of social distancing in Seoul and neighbouring areas for the first time, including a ban on gatherings of more than two people after 6 p.m. The Korean Baseball Organization (KBO) convened an emergency board meeting on Monday to push back by one month the season that was scheduled to run from Tuesday and resume after the Tokyo Olympics on August 10.
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