Fifa estimates how much Covid-19 will cost global football
This TV grab from from World Health Organization (WHO) website shows Fifa President Gianni Infantino speaking during a virtual news briefing to launch a WHO and Fifa joint awareness campaign led by world-renowned footballers to follow five key steps to stop the spread of the Covid-19 (novel coronavirus) at the WHO headquarters in Geneva on March 23, 2020.
The pandemic has already led to over 150 football associations to seek financial help from the $1.5 billion emergency relief fund set up by football's governing body.
Mexico spent its entire $1.5mn grant on its national women's league, and in Brazil the funds are supporting the testing programme in the women's competition.
Bellinzona, Switzerland
Fifa on Wednesday put the cost of Covid-19 on football around the world at $11 billion (Sh1.19 trillion) in lost revenue.
