Is sport safe? No cases of Covid spread on UK pitches

A general view of the a Covid-19 testing facility on day three of the European Indoor Athletics Championships at Arena Torun in Torun, Poland. Photo by Sam Barnes/Sportsfile

There has been no on-field transmission of Covid-19 in UK football, rugby union, rugby league or American football, experts have told the Sunday Times.

Professor James Calder, the independent chairman of the government’s committee on the return of elite sport, said all cases of Covid transmission within football have come off the field.