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One of Coventry City’s League One automatic promotion rivals has two players in isolation amid fears they have contracted the coronavirus.

Peterborough United owner Darragh MacAnthony has revealed that two unnamed players have been advised to self isolate for seven days after showing symptoms of the illness that has today brought football in the UK to a halt.

“It’s Armageddon out there at the minute, isn’t it,” said MacAnthony, speaking to TalkSPORT’s Jim White in the wake of today’s news to suspend the football season until April 3/4.

Coincidentally, Mark Robins 's league leading Sky Blues are due to play Posh at St Andrew's on Saturday, April 4.

“You’re obviously watching the news, you’re on Twitter and social media and you see it. It goes from hysteria to some common sense.

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“I think it’s the right call by the Premier League and everyone else. Let’s reconvene in three weeks and see what the experts say.

“Hopefully the Government can lead the light in a better way than they have so far. The testing process needs to be quickened up.

“That’s what I’m trying to get my head around.”

He added: “I’ll be speaking to my manager this afternoon because we have got two players in isolation.

“We’re saying we’ve got no football for three weeks but do we have an isolation period at the club?

“Do we bring them all back in next week but we have to have the two players tested because we obviously don’t want it to spread through the training ground?

“The two players have been told to call a number and then they’ve been told to isolate themselves for seven days and that’s all fine and very well but we don’t know if they have it or not.

“So we need to get them tested and we have been ringing our private medical providers and insurers. Some of the bigger clubs in the Premier League are getting all their players tested and if we have to pay to get that done we will as well.

“The guidelines haven’t been clear enough.”

Asked for more details about the two players and how the situation came about, MacAthony said: “A couple of our players rang in yesterday, or last night, and the manager called me this morning and said they are showing symptoms so he told them to stay at home.

“We spoke to the doctor and he gave us the 111 number. They rang the number and were told there was no-one to see them at that time, or to go and see, but to stay at home today.

“That’s what they’ve been told.

“I said to the manager that if he wants to bring the players back in for training next week, and there’s obviously no football for three weeks but they are athletes and we have to keep the players fit for down the line when the games resume again, we have to come up with a programme.

“We need to make sure everyone is tested, staff and everyone at the training ground. It’s a bit difficult at the moment to grasp where to get the right advice and do the right thing, particularly if we have got two players at home at the moment not knowing if they have to or not.

“There’s definitely going to be cause for concern.”