Leicester Tigers lock down two weeks before new season after coronavirus outbreak

Tigers’ first game of the 2020-21 Premiership campaign is scheduled to be at home to Gloucester on November 21

Leicester Tigers’ plans have been affected by an outbreak of coronavirus. Picture: Joe Giddens/PA

Leicester have stopped all training and closed the club’s training ground just under two weeks before the start of the new Gallagher Premiership season following an outbreak of Covid-19.

The club returned several positive coronavirus tests earlier this week, including players and members of support staff.