Italy's Serie A is set to resume from its winter break on January 6 despite a surge in COVID-19 cases.
Notably, one out of every ten players in Serie A are COVID-19 positive but the Italian league will go ahead with their key fixtures including the third-placed Napoli taking on No. 5 Juventus, while AC Milan will face AS Roma on Thursday. Serie A has decided to go full steam ahead, prioritising the games completed rather than postponing them and risking fixture congestion later on.
Bottom-placed Salernitana have been affected the worst as their nine players sidelined because of the virus, making their clash against Venezia on Thursday doubtful. The Juve-Napoli clash also faces the risk of being cancelled as the visitors have had an outbreak, with six players and their coach Luciano Spalletti being quarantined.
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Although 98 per cent of the players have been vaccinated, a small number of them have been resisting the vaccine. The league has not made it mandatory for all players to take the COVID vaccine.
