A few hours after the British government announced that it is officially opening the door for the sport to return to the islands from June 1, the Premier League has released the results of the last test run for Covid-19. The league explained that between Thursday and Friday it has performed a total of 1,130 tests on players, technicians and staff without having found a single positive. One more positive news for a competition that has set the start date for June 17. In fact, the government's green light for the return of the competition already allows group training.
The Premier has conducted a comprehensive and lengthy testing campaign to detect the coronavirus. Officially, this is the fourth round of analysis practiced on the protagonists of their competition. Thus, the first took place between May 17 and 18 with the result of six positive cases from three different clubs at the rate of 748 tests. Days later, between May 19 and 22, 996 tests revealed two new cases of infection in two teams. The third round was practiced between May 25 and 26. At that time there were already 1,008 tests, of which four were positive, belonging to two clubs. Now the league is clean from contagion.