straight to your inboxIt sounded an incredibly bleak forecast on Boxing Day when Steve Bruce said that he hoped Manchester City's two positive cases would not leap into double figures.
With the situation so severe that Pep Guardiola's squad did not play their next fixture - becoming just the second Premier League team after Newcastle to call off a game this season - the Blues can only hope that they are not as badly damaged by the virus as Bruce's group have been.
Newcastle's training ground was shut for 10 days after their outbreak, before being opened up again to give them two days to train before their Premier League match with West Brom took place without a "big chunk" of their squad.
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