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Premier League to continue despite 40 Fresh Covid-19 Cases
By Dayo Badmus
The English Premier League confirmed on Tuesday that the League will continue despite 40 players and staff testing positive for Covid-19 on January 5, 2021.
40 players and staff tested positive for coronavirus in the last two rounds of testing over the past week, but the season will continue as planned.
The figure is more than double the previous record of 18 positive cases recorded last week.
It comes as England enters a nationwide lockdown to stop the soaring infection rates.
Meanwhile, Premier League football and other forms of elite professional sports in England will be allowed to continue despite new national lockdown restrictions announced by the British government on Monday, January 4, 2021.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson said in a televised address that,
about 56 million people in the country will return to a full Covid-19 lockdown, most likely until mid-February, to try to halt infection rates.
The measures, which include the closure of Primary and Secondary Schools, will come into effect Wednesday, 6 January, 2021.
But a list of exemptions published by the UK government allowed “elite sportspeople (and their coaches if necessary, or parents/guardians if they are under 18) – or those on an official elite sports pathway – to compete and train”.
