New cases of Covid-19 dropped in South Korea. Professional teams hope to start the season there in May.

“If the situation continues to improve from here and on, teams will start facing each other in preseason games beginning on April 21, and we should be able to get the regular season started in early May,” KBO secretary general Ryu Dae-hwan said after a meeting with club general managers in Seoul.

“Obviously, these scenarios will be feasible only if we have dramatically fewer confirmed cases in the coming days.”

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You can see the graphs of South Korea’s infection history here. New cases peaked on March 3, 2020, and over the last six days they have been under 100 cases a day. It’s not clear from the article if they will start with fans in the stands or not.

New cases in the US hit a local peak on April 4, 2020. If that indeed turns out to be the peak, and the US follows the South Korea fall off in cases, that would indicate a possible early June start to the MLB season.