PREMIER LEAGUE players are already taking coronavirus tests.
About 40,000 testing kits – costing about £4million – are to be bought by the League in a bid to get games resumed.
About 40,000 testing kits costing about £4million are to be bought by the Premier League in a bid to get games resumed
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But one major club has already started sending out kits to their players’ homes to test themselves.
All Premier League clubs are set to resume training by next Monday on an individual basis although some have already opened their doors to players.
It is hoped that full squad training will start on May 25 but football authorities are waiting for Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s approval to ease some lockdown measures on Thursday.
The only way that the 92 remaining Prem games can take place is to complete mass testing.
But it is still possible for some clubs and organisations to source test kits from abroad even though there is a debate over the reliability of some.
Officially, players will be tested twice a week to help to try and make the conditions safer when training resumes.
All of the players in the top two German divisions were tested at the end of last week. Only three staff at Cologne tested positive for coronavirus although one of them was a physio.
The Bundesliga players will once again all be tested today before they are allowed to resume full training this week.
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Source: Soccer - thesun.co.uk
