Manchester United have reported more positive coronavirus cases after the squad returned to training.
The club had locked down the first-team parts of the training field earlier this week after registering a series of positives, which prompted the club’s scheduled trip to Brentford to be postponed. The players, on the other hand, returned to Carrington on Wednesday, excluding those who had tested positive.
More positive instances have now been reported, casting doubt on Ralf Rangnick’s team’s upcoming Premier League encounter against Brighton.
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The news came just hours after the postponement of Burnley’s clash with Watford was announced two and a half hours before kick-off at Turf Moor. A Covid-19 outbreak in the visitors’ squad caused a last-minute calling off on the day that the United Kingdom recorded its highest ever figure for daily positive tests.
The Premier League also had its largest return from the latest round of testing, with 42 players and staff testing positive in the seven days leading up to Monday 13 December. With the even-more transmissible Omicron variant beginning to wreak havoc on the festive top-flight football schedule and more widely, the Premier League announced a return to “emergency measures” this week.