Coronavirus sport news updates: Roman Abramovich to aid NHS staff as Fifa meet after Euro 2020 postponed and cricket suspended indefinitely

Fifa president Gianni Infantino calls urgent meeting to ratify a new-look football calendar to cope with the coronavirus crisis that is having a major impact on all sport

Coronavirus: What we know so far

Uefa made the decision to postpone Euro 2020 until 2021 due to the coronavirus, with the coronavirus still impacting the sport for the foreseeable future. It should allow for the Premier League and Europe’s other elite football leagues to finish, not to mention the Champions League and Europa League – though a contingency for those tournaments is yet to be finalised.

The French Open in tennis and the PGA Championship in golf are just two more major events postponed or cancelled due to Covid-19, while the Olympics in Tokyo this year continues to resist pressure to postpone the Games.

Fifa now plan to meet in an effort to help ease the impact of coronavirus on the football calendar, while the Premier League have joined Uefa in their efforts to finish their respective competitions by 30 June. While multiple Brooklyn Nets players have now contracted the virus, including NBA superstar Kevin Durant - here’s how we brought you the latest updates from around the world on Wednesday as coronavirus continued to hit sport hard.

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Uefa has said its aim is to complete the Champions League season by 30 June this year amid the chaos that coronavirus has caused the footballing calendar.

Earlier on Tuesday, Euro 2020 was postponed until 2021 in order to free up space this summer to ensure club football campaigns around Europe can be finished.

In a statement, Uefa said it had convened and “unanimously agreed” on a commitment “to complete all domestic and European club competitions by the end of the current sporting season, i.e. 30 June 2020 at the latest, should the situation improve and resuming playing be appropriate and prudent enough”.

Uefa also agreed upon the “possible adaptations of the 2020/21 Uefa Champions League and Uefa Europa League qualifying rounds,” however, “in case of late completion of the 2019/20 sporting season, i.e. after 30 June 2020.

Key Points

• Euro 2020 postponed until 2021, Uefa confirm
• Kevin Durant tests positive for virus
• French Open moved to September
• Golf's PGA Championship cancelled
• IOC member: Tokyo Olympic Games going ahead is 'insensitive and irresponsible'

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Breaking: Le Mans 24-hour race postponed until September due to 'current exceptional circumstances' of coronavirus pandemic

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Here's the full story on Le Mans being postponed:

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In other motor-racing news...

Formula One's August shutdown will be brought forward and extended to a mandatory 21 successive days in March and April as a result of the coronavirus outbreak, the governing body FIA said on Wednesday.

The 2020 race calendar has already been suspended, with last weekend's Australian season opener in Melbourne cancelled and the next three races at least postponed. The sport hopes to race again at the end of May.

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A reminder that there's no football anywhere in Europe's top leagues until April, though many fear the delay could go far beyond that date.

In Italy, sports minister Vincenzo Spadafora was interviewed on TG1 and said that the current hope is for "Serie A to resume on May 3", with a decision to be taken nearer the time on whether that would be with doors open or closed to the public.

The intention would be then to get the season wrapped up by the end of June.

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That's all from us today in terms of live updates of coronavirus news in the sporting world, but keep an eye on our site for any further stories this evening.

Also, don't forget to check back tomorrow for more live updates, with the Premier League's meeting sure to produces some major news.

Until then...