Premier League eliminates weekly PCRs

The Premier League will no longer force footballers to take two tests PCR weekly and will only have to undergo daily antigen testing.

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PCRs, to confirm positives

As of this Thursday, the 20 clubs of the Premier they will only have to carry out a daily antigen test on their footballers, while the PCR they will be reserved to confirm positives.

This measure has been introduced after the British Government has announced that it will no longer be mandatory to carry out a PCR for citizens who test positive for Covid-19 in an antigen test.

In this way, isolation periods will be shortened, since it will begin to count from the positive antigen test and not the antigen test. PCR.

Several weeks exceeding 90 infections

This decision has been made at a time when the Premier For several weeks, it has exceeded 90 infections per week among footballers and club workers and the United Kingdom sets a record for daily positives, with more than 200,000 cases this Tuesday.

The last to be suspended was the first leg of the Carabao Cup semifinals between Arsenal Y Liverpool, which had to be disputed this Thursday.