MOSCOW (Russia): Russia will allow a small number of fans to attend football matches at the stadiums when the country’s Premier League restarts next month.
In mid-May, Russia’s football association said that the league would restart its suspended season from June 21 behind closed doors.
But on Thursday, the Russia football federation said it had agreed on a compromise with the state consumer health watchdog, adding spectators will be initially allowed to occupy 10 per cent of stadiums’ seats.
“This is a safe number of fans if all safety measures are observed,” the association said, quoted by the country’s official anti-coronavirus portal.
The league will become the latest football competition to resume amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Russia’s top-flight campaign briefly continued as other elite leagues were paused due to the crisis, before the season was halted on March 17.
An initial April 10 suspension was then extended to May 31, with now more than 260,000 cases of COVID-19 in the country.
