(Reuters) – The English Football League (EFL), the governing physique of the three divisions beneath the Premier League, has no plans for a “circuit breaker” to briefly droop matches amid a surge in COVID-19 cases, chairman Rick Parry stated on Saturday.
The emergence of the Omicron variant of coronavirus has disrupted quite a few matches within the English high flight, whereas 19 video games have been postponed throughout the EFL this weekend.
A report in The Times newspaper stated officers in Britain have been contemplating a short lived “circuit breaker” lockdown for two weeks after Christmas to stem the unfold of the variant.
“If we predict a circuit breaker will assist, we are going to do it however, in the intervening time, there’s no scientific proof to recommend that it’s going to assist,” Parry instructed the BBC.
“If you have a look at the geographical unfold, there are areas the place video games can go forward and the place they cannot,” he stated.
“There’s discuss of the federal government having a two-week lockdown after Christmas, so possibly that can be taken out of our palms.”
Britain reported a surge in cases of the Omicron variant on Saturday which authorities advisers stated could also be simply the tip of the iceberg.
(Reporting by Manasi Pathak in Bengaluru; Editing by Hugh Lawson)
