India cancels pre-Olympic base in Korea amid coronavirus outbreak

FILE PHOTO: 2016 Rio Olympics - Shooting - Preliminary - Men's 25m Rapid Fire Pistol Qualification - Stage 1 - Olympic Shooting Centre - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - 12/08/2016. Gurpreet Singh (IND) of India competes. REUTERS/Edgard

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - The Indian shooting federation has dropped Italy as a training venue for its shooters and also cancelled plans to set up a pre-Olympic base in South Korea following the coronavirus outbreak, its president told Reuters on Thursday.

The coronavirus has infected more than 80,000 people and killed nearly 2,800, the majority in China, the source of the outbreak.