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XtraTime Web Desk: Another major news comes in for the international football fans as, the Premier League has suspended the 2019/20 season until at least April 3 amid the Coronavirus pandemic. Despite a statement on Thursday evening declaring the weekend’s fixtures would go ahead as planned, the news of Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta and Chelsea’s Callum Hudson-Odoi testing positive required immediate action. And after all 20 clubs and Premier League officials convened in an emergency meeting on Friday morning, the decision has been made to suspend the league season until April 3. The situation will again be reviewed closer to the date, with Liverpool’s next scheduled fixture after the suspended period coming at Man City on April 5. The English topflight was the last of Europe’s top five leagues to suspend play or move games behind closed doors after the UK government found there was “no rationale” to postpone sports events. Ligue 1, La Liga and Serie A are already in a state of suspension for at least two weeks or up until April 3, where further decisions will be made in due course, while the Bundesliga will play in empty stadiums this week before being suspended from Tuesday until April 2.