Newcastle's players will be told to stay at home and work on personal training programmes during the Premier League shutdown.
Head coach Steve Bruce has revealed the club had already drawn up a contingency plan for any suspension of the league programme as a result of the coronavirus outbreak when the governing bodies acted on Friday after Arsenal boss Mikel Arteta and Chelsea midfielder Callum Hudson-Odoi had tested positive.
Bruce, who had earlier spoken to journalists at his scheduled 8:45am pre-match press conference ahead of Saturday's now-postponed clash with Sheffield United, said: 'We've set the personal programmes in place, they're ready to go.