The 12 nations scheduled to participate in the final window of Asia Cup qualifying in Doha have been notified by FIBA that the window has been canceled due to a rise in COVID-19 cases in Qatar, the Japan Basketball Association announced Friday night.
In late January, the pandemic caused the qualifying window to be shifted from Tokyo to Doha, where the teams, split into three groups of four, would have competed in a bubble.
Japan is in Group B — which was scheduled to play from Feb. 18 to 23 — with China, Malaysia and Taiwan. Malaysia and Taiwan had already pulled out of the window due to coronavirus concerns prior to the cancellation of the Doha qualifiers.
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