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Plans For Football Fans To Return In October Called Off Amid Covid-19 Spread

The Return of Fans

After the return of active football globally, the need and plans for fans to return to watch live sport events in England is another topic.

Due this development, cabinet office minister Michael Gove has disclosed that the date October 1 will not go ahead.

BBC reports that, the plans were placed under review earlier this month after a rise in coronavirus cases, with pilot events restricted to 1,000 people.

At the moment, the state of Covid-19 transmission alert in the UK is “high or rising exponentially” because it has moved to 4.

In response to the rise, new measures will be set out by Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Tuesday.

Gove, while making comments on BBC Breakfast confirmed plans for a staged return of fans would be “paused”.

He said, “We were looking at a staged programme of more people returning – it wasn’t going to be the case that we were going to have stadiums thronged with fans,”

“We’re looking at how we can, for the moment, pause that programme, but what we do want to do is to make sure that, as and when circumstances allow, get more people back.

“The virus is less likely to spread outdoors than indoors but again it’s in the nature of major sporting events that there’s a lot of

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