Corona virus

That would be winner Nige I guess. 

In confined spaces which seems to include sports stadia. Three French race meetings are to be held behind closed doors next week.

Many people travelling from all over the world to a single destination - cancelled (e.g. Paris half-marathon).

As far as I know, this has NOT led to the closures of well-attended museums and galleries in Paris, but the Louvre staff walked out themselves because of safety concerns.

All indoor public meetings in France with more than 5000 people expected are banned.

In areas with significant numbers of cases e.g. Oise, all public gatherings banned, including markets! (defied by one mayor, however). Around 120 schools in the Oise have been shut until further notice, affecting 35,000 pupils.

To date - outdoor events such as football and rugby matches going ahead, as far as I know. 

The 'flexible approach' idea has been criticised in France, but it's tricky to apply a 'one size fits all' solution ATM, since some areas have clusters of cases, whereas others have very few or none. 

There are more cases in France than the UK, but the complacency of Johnson (who could not be bothered to convene a meeting before the weekend) is pretty startling by comparison. Even on Monday, AFTER the so-called crisis meeting, the PM's spokesman answered nearly every question with: "You'll have to wait until tomorrow for the plan"!

From tomorrow Lombardia, Veneto and Emilia Romagna will be lock down.

I suppose also RWC U20 is at risk in Italy and many other games...

The problem of this situation isnt the virus and its illness, but try to manage and control hospitals situations, for the italian sanitary system is a really problematic time and they are working in magnific way..

Europe in this case are not doing well, specially Germany and France, they knew of internal focolars but didnt say anything...

Toulon trip affected then? 

I'll keep an eye on how the disease progresses in France, in the meantime.

It wouldn't surprise me. The season usually starts with 6 weekends of Pro14 from the first weekend in September, followed by 2 European weekends. That conveniently leaves a spare week at the end of October before the Autumn Internationals start. But where would Ireland v Italy fit in?