“But many countries have refused to send their archers due to coronavirus scare. So, we are postponing the tournament for now,” Kazi Rajib Uddin Ahmed Chapol, the general secretary of the Bangladesh Archery Federation, told bdnews24.com on Tuesday. Bangladesh has been organising the annual world ranking event since 2017. World Archery, the game’s governing body, said in a report that a number of teams withdrew due to travel restrictions and ongoing concerns around the COVID-19 or coronavirus outbreak. The rapidly spreading coronavirus claimed another 98 lives in mainland China on Monday, bringing the total death toll there to 1,868.

Source: bd News24 February 18, 2020 12:42 UTC