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Football clubs in LOCKDOWN: Chelsea star tests positive for coronavirus just hours after Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta is diagnosed as teams begin self-isolating - so why are games STILL going ahead this weekend?

Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta and Chelsea player Callum Hudson-Odoi have both tested positive for coronavirus just hours after the Premier League announced this weekend's fixtures will still go ahead.

Arteta, 37, became the first confirmed member of staff of a Premier League team to contract the disease, which was officially labelled a pandemic by the World Health Organisation on Wednesday.

News of Arteta's diagnosis came less than an hour after the Premier League announced that this weekend's fixtures would still be played as planned.

He, and the entire first-team squad and coaching staff, will now be self-isolating in accordance with the most recent government guidelines.