Next year's Tokyo Marathon will be rescheduled from March to the fall due to concerns over the coronavirus pandemic, sources said Wednesday.

The Tokyo Marathon Foundation, the road race’s organizer, will hold a board meeting Friday to grant official approval for the decision, which is expected to include allowing some 38,000 general entrants to participate.

According to the sources, the foundation abandoned the planned date of March 7 amid uncertainty over whether the pandemic would be contained in time and opted instead to hold the marathon after next summer’s rescheduled Tokyo Olympics.

Organizers are aiming to hold the 2022 edition in March, around the time the race is usually held in the Japanese capital.