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  • reported today in Football.

  • 365 Manchester City's Premier League clash with Arsenal has been postponed as a precautionary measure over Corona virus fears Nottingham Forest and Olympe Arcs.

  • Owner of Angeles Maren Archies, who announced on Tuesday that he had contracted the virus, met Arsenal staff and players during the February 27th Europa League tie at the Emirates Stadium.

  • The Premier League issued a statement in the early hours of Wednesday confirming the postponement read.

  • Tonight's game between Manchester City and Arsenal has been postponed as a precautionary measure following the announcement yesterday that Evangelos Maren Archies has contracted covert 19.

  • 13 days ago, Olympia Coz played at the Emirates Stadium in the Europa League and Mr Maron Archies, the Greek club's owner, met with several Arsenal squad members and staff feature seven big games to have been played behind closed doors following medical advice.

  • Arsenal FC and Manchester City FC consider it is necessary to postpone a fixture due to be played this evening to give time to fully assess the situation.

  • The Premier League has therefore agreed that tonight's game will be rearranged.

  • We understand this will cause inconvenience and cost of fans planning to attend the game.

  • But Arsenal, Manchester City and the Premier League have agreed that the short notice of Mr Maron Archies infection means there is no alternative but to take the time to complete a proper assessment of risk.

  • All necessary measures are being taken in.

  • The Premier League currently has no plans to postpone any other matches.

  • Arsenal, who earlier on Tuesday told the P A news agency none of its personnel who had met Marren Archies had reported symptoms, said a number of players were now self isolating for 14 days and with us unavailable for Wednesday night's game, triggering the Premier League's decision to postpone.

  • We have been taking medical advice and tracing any individuals who had what the government guidelines defined as close contact with him at the game 13 days ago.

  • As a result of this exercise, we identified that a number of players met the Olympia Park sooner immediately following the gang.

  • The medical advice we have received puts the risk of them developing Covad 19 at extremely low.

  • However, we are strictly following the government guidelines which recommend that anyone coming into close contact with someone with the virus should self isolated home for 14 days from the last time they had contact.

  • Despite Maren Archies diagnosis and his position at Forest, the English Football League says there is no immediate plans to postpone any fixtures.

  • A forest statement said Marry nah.

  • Keys had shown no symptoms when in Nottingham last week, during which time he attended the club's home game against Millwall on Friday night and reportedly met with the first team squad confirming matches across its three divisions would for more on this story visit the news article link.

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