The Executive Board of the  Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) on Friday (May 6) decided to postpone the 19th Asian Games scheduled to be held in the Chinese city of Hangzhou from September 10 to 25 this year. The OCA postponed the Asian Games, the biggest sports carnival of Asia,  indefinitely amid a recent surge in Covid-19 cases in China, the host country of the games. The Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) Executive Board met in Tashkent on Friday to discuss the situation and felt postponing the Games was the best decision under the circumstances. Also Read: BFF initially selects 30 booters for Asian Games The new dates of the 19th Asian Games will be announced in the near future, said a BOA media release on Friday. The OCA board also decided to cancel the 3rd  Asian Youth Games scheduled to be held in another  Chinese city of Shantou from December 20 to 28 next. However,  the next Asian Youth Games will therefore be held in 2025 in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, the media release added.