The peak of the coronavirus in Lisbon puts in danger to the Champions

The Champions League 2019-20 has seen again loomed by the coronavirus. The UEFA took the decision to plant to Lisbon like headquarters of the final to eight that will contest to resolve the competition in the month of August, once have remained decided all the teams classified for the round of quarter-finals. It will do a draw, and will contest eliminatory to only party until arriving to the final.

At least that is the aim, and the capital of Portugal was chosen like headquarters for the dispute of all the parties of this special phase of the present League of Champions. The leaders of the UEFA, in any case, did not have an unforeseen of last hour: that a shoot descontrolado of coronavirus affected to the city and planted to 19 of his 24 districts in quarantine.

The government of Portugal decreed this past Thursday the confinement of the districts in question, with the aim of aplacar a shoot that concentrates 77% of the 311 cases registered in the last 24 hours in the neighbouring country. The measure was adopted after António Coast, prime minister, intensified the control in the zone, in which it has limited to no more than ten people the meetings from the past Monday.

Even the borders with Spain will remain closed in Portugal until 1 July, by what the situation in Portugal has aggravated in the last days if we compare it with the one of does some months. In this point, and taking into account that lacking around a month and half so that it contest the 'final to eight' of the Champions League 2019-20, it will be necessary to see if the UEFA takes some new decision of last hour.

The UEFA will have to be very attentive

For now, it does not foresee that the maximum organism of the European football go back to act in the short term, but it will limit to be followed very closely the evolution of the shoot of coronavirus in Lisbon and, if it does not solve in the weeks to come, then yes will act to suspend definitively the competition this course or move this 'final to eight' to another European region that was not affected in these moments.

To day of today exist a lot of doubts and few certainties on what will occur from the 7-8 August, when it is foreseen that it play the turn of the eighth of final of the eliminatory that are missing for resolving . In spite of the situation of alarm, this yes, the authorities of Portugal have denied that it exist any type of "descontrol" on the shoots by coronavirus detected in the city. "The numbers show that there is not descontrol, there would be it if there was more than the double of cases presionando the number of ingresados in intensive cares", explained Marcelo Rebel of Sousa. It will be necessary to be attentive.