PARIS — The Paris Marathon, scheduled for April 5 with 60,000 registered runners, has been postponed until Oct. 18 due to the coronavirus outbreak, race organizers told AFP in a statement Thursday. Last weekend"s half-marathon in the French capital was also cancelled over fears of the deadly virus that has killed over 3,300 people worldwide. That race has been rearranged for Sept. 6. "Immediately after the cancellation of the Paris half-marathon less than 24 hours before the start, the teams from the Paris city council and Amaury Sport Organisation came together to find a new date for the event. We are pleased to announce that the half-marathon will take place on Sunday 6th September," ASO said in a statement." "Regarding the marathon, we have reached an agreement with Paris city council to move the marathon to the 18th October with the aim of avoiding any last-minute cancelation." The announcements came after the French government on Saturday ordered the cancelation of "gatherings of more than 5,000 people" in enclosed areas as well as some external events. The French health ministry reported Thursday two more deaths from coronavirus infections, bringing the country"s total to six, and 92 new cases since Wednesday. It was the biggest one-day jump in the number of French cases since the outbreak began, raising the total to 377 Morocco and Nigeria added to highest doping risk list - AIU Morocco and Nigeria were on Thursday added to the list of countries at highest doping risk by the athletics Integrity Unit (AIU), less than five months from the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. Countries worldwide are classified by the AIU in three categories - A, B and C - according to the level of doping risk to the sport, with category A having the highest doping risk to the sport and category C the lowest. Morocco and Nigeria join Bahrain, Belarus, Ethiopia, Kenya and Ukraine as having category A status. Russia has been banned over doping since November 2015. The AIU, the independent anti-doping watchdog for track and field, said that in 2019, the Nigerian athletics federation failed to report on compliance as a category B country. "This very serious situation motivated the AIU board to move Nigeria into category A," it said. Turning to Morocco, the AIU said that, despite significant efforts, "a number of national level issues have not been addressed". "The doping threat in Morocco remains acute and the AIU considers that more needs to be done to address the threat, where applicable, with the support of the relevant Moroccan authorities. —AFP