Nippon Professional Baseball and the J. League hosted the seventh meeting of their joint COVID-19 task force on Monday morning, with neither league making any concrete announcement regarding when games will be played.
One thing that is known, however, is that there will be no NPB All-Star Series this year. That decision was reached in a meeting with NPB and club representatives later Monday afternoon. The league is hoping to begin its season in mid-to-late June.
The Japanese government extended its state of emergency, which was originally scheduled to be lifted May 6, until the end of the month, and the task force's medical panel on Monday morning advised the leagues that it would be difficult to set dates for their respective campaigns under the current circumstances.