RB Leipzig “sorry” for removing Japanese guests over coronavirus concerns.

RB Leipzig have apologised to a set of Japanese supporters, who were asked to leave their home match against Bayer Leverkusen, due to fears they may have the coronavirus.

Security at the match were told to make “increased checks on a group of persons from potential risk areas”, according to Germany's DPA news agency.

The number of cases of the virus, in Japan, has hit 980 and some airports have stop flying to the country.

A fan, who attended Sunday's 1-1 draw at the Red Bull Arena, said he was asked to leave the match.

“I was visiting the game against Bayer Leverkusen. I entered the stadium with no problems, however after the game had started, a security guard said to me that I was infected with COVID-19 because I'm Japanese,” Taiach Hayashikawa posed on Twitter.

In response, RB Leipzig released the following statement on their official website.

“The security service was required to check groups of people from potential risk areas in accordance with Robert Koch Institute's recommendations for action (General principles of risk assessment and recommendations for major events).

“Unfortunately, in the specific case, in the course of the great uncertainty that currently also exists with us on this subject, a mistake in the interpretation towards our Japanese guests has been made. We would like to apologise for this mistake.”

The 20 guest removed, have been invited back by the club for a game of their choosing.

As a writing, there has been 188 confirmed coronavirus cases in Germany.

Serie A has suspended all games until 8th March, due to the virus, however the Premier League have continued to fulfil all fixtures.