Doncaster’s Covid-19 warning

Neil Doncaster has told Scottish football to brace itself for more and more positive coronavirus cases in the weeks ahead.

The warning from the Scottish Professional Football League chief executive comes after three Hamilton players were ordered into a 10-day quarantine after contracting the disease.

Accies cancelled two days of training this week as a precaution but boss Brian Rice has now been told no other members of his team will have to self-isolate ahead of their trip to Kilmarnock on Saturday so long as they return negative results when they are next tested today.

But they are not the only club to have been disrupted this week.

St Mirren were made to fulfil their clash with Hibernian last weekend despite having goalkeepers Jak Alnwick, Dean Lyness and Peter Urminsky all sidelined by an outbreak at the Paisley club, with boss Jim Goodwin forced to call in Hearts goalkeeper Zdenek Zlamal on an emergency loan.

And Doncaster expects to see more teams affected by the Covid- 19 crisis as winter approaches with cases of the virus surging across Scotland.

He said: “Given the current incidence of the virus in the community, we are likely to see more and more positive tests for Covid-19 amongst Premiership teams.

“This situation once again emphasises the importance of our current testing regime in reducing the likelihood of the virus spreading unchecked through Premiership firstteam squads, and in increasing the chances of us being able to complete season 2020-21.”

Meanwhile, Livingston have been given the Covid all-clear after their defeat to Hamilton on Saturday.