Watford will find out later today whether any of its players have contracted the coronavirus after three of the club’s first-team players were sent home from training on Thursday morning.

The players will not return before the test results are due this afternoon. The Premier League is expected to announce this morning that all games are suspended after Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta and Chelsea's Callum Hudson-Odoi were confirmed to have tested positive for coronavirus. Watford are due to play Leicester City at home on Saturday.

Telegraph Sport revealed yesterday that a club was testing its players after three of them reported symptoms of COVID-19. One player had self-isolated earlier in the week and had appeared to be recovering but there was a relapse with two of his team-mates then displaying symptoms.

That club can now be revealed as Watford. If a positive result is confirmed later today then it is inevitable that their game will be called off, if the Premier League hasn't already suspended fixtures, and there will also be concerns that players from Crystal Palace may have been affected given they played against Nigel Pearson’s side last Saturday.

There was a growing mood of anger on Thursday among clubs and players that the Premier League was set to continue despite the coronavirus crisis being declared a global pandemic by the World Health Organisation and, also, the suspension of football across Europe.