Premier League is stunned by Covid-19: Clubs urgent meeting to postpone the tournament

Chairman of the group clubs

After receiving the information of the Premier League teams, he received the number of positive Covid-19 records in a day, the Chairman of the clubs had an unofficial meeting to consider the ability to postponement in the next 2 weeks. This is the action to protect the player, the team employee before the complex situation of Covid-19 in the UK.

Premier League clubs are considering the possibility of applying for 2 weeks

The fear of the Premier League teams is not without reason because they will have to play the 3 FA Cup round in early next month. Many teams must meet lower-class rivals and infections will increase. Particularly in the third day (December 29), nine matches of his lower rankings were postponed by Covid-19 and this figure was guessed to increase every day.

Currently, Translation Covid-19 is broke out in the UK. Particularly on December 29, the British government recorded record infections of 53,135 cases in which 414 cases of deaths.

Premier League wobbled for Covid-19

Not a long time, the British Premier Organizing Committee has bounded the 17th Covid-19 testing, taking place from December 21 to December 27. Accordingly, 18 cases are confirmed positive for this strain of 1,479 players, employees of 20 teams participating in the test.

This is the largest number of Covid-19 cases ever discovered during the 17 tests starting in August.

Premier League recorded the largest Covid-19 cases from August

It is still unclear whether the matches of 18 cases of Covid-19 are postponed or not. According to Premier League regulations, the match will still take place if each team has 14 players (including team players 1 and the U23 player once went to the team 1).

However, on December 29, the tournament organizers were forced to postpone the match between Everton and Man City in the 16th round of concerns due to the risk of cross-contamination. This is the second time a 1820/21 Premier League match was postponed, after the Newcastle United - Aston Villa on December 4 (round 11).

As of the end of December 29, the UK has more than 2.3 million cases of Covid-19 and over 71,000 deaths. In the UK, the number of cases of infections is 2 million people (62,000 deaths), so the Government is considering bringing alarms to level 4 nationwide, closing schools in January 1/2021 and Vaccination for 2 million people per week.

Battle Everton - Man City was postponed after Man City had 5 players with Covid-19

Before the situation, Wesley Tensel, the Rochdale's three-class doctor who spoke up asking for his Football Federation to postpone every match:

"The players under pressure to play through the deep in mind, they are concerned to affect themselves and their families. They are just normal people and sometimes wondering, should the season continue to take place? The number of Covid-19 cases is still increasing. Even in areas in Level 4 alarms, where people are not allowed to travel, football players still go to the yard as usual. "