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Scientific experts warn that it could be months before games are played in front of crowds

Scientific experts warn that it could be months before games are played in front of crowds

Scientific experts have warned that sports face a wait of several weeks from the end of lockdown before they resume, and it could be months more until games can be played in front of crowds.

Even if lockdown restrictions were relaxed around the end of next month, there would be unlikely to be any -professional sport in the United Kingdom until late June at the earliest, with potentially no sport in front of crowds until August.

Professor Rowland Kao, an epidemiologist and data scientist at the University of Edinburgh says at the bare minimum, you'd want to wait a few weeks before resuming sport to be sure that restriction removal does not result in any substantial increase in cases.

He says return to normalcy too quickly and the opportunities for large numbers of cases to occur - either sparked through infectious cases in-country that had been missed, or brought in from overseas - will be high.

[Source: Stuff.Co]

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