The Premier League will proceed with its Covid-19 testing programme regardless of restrictions being lifted.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson introduced all coronavirus legal guidelines in England, together with the authorized requirement for individuals who take a look at optimistic to isolate, will finish on Thursday earlier than free common testing is scrapped in April.
However the PA information company understands the Premier League will keep its present testing programme within the short-term, with a view to finally easing out of the restrictions.
Earlier on Monday the league introduced 9 new optimistic outcomes from final week’s testing.
A league assertion learn: “The Premier League can right now affirm that between Monday 14 February and Sunday 20 February, 2,958 gamers and membership workers have been examined for COVID-19. Of those, there have been 9 new optimistic assessments.”
Lateral movement testing for gamers and key membership workers reverted to twice weekly, bringing the variety of assessments performed down from over 6,000 per week just lately – excluding the league’s winter break – to lower than half that quantity.
The 9 new instances is the primary single-figure tally of positives because the week starting November 22.
Kaynak: briturkish.com
