Researchers at Aarhus University in Denmark have looked closely at 14 matches in the country's highest series, the Super League. They have concluded that if one player is infected with the corona virus then the other players are only near that person for one and a half minutes.

It should be borne in mind that the study, which has not yet been published, is one of the very few in the subject. The authors behind it are Nikolas S Knudsen, Manuel M Thomasen and Thomas Bull Andersen.

According to Anders Randrup Thomsen, professor of virology at the University of Copenhagen, the study shows that there is a low risk of being infected in connection with football games as long as you follow certain rules such as avoiding the changing room, hugging and cheering in groups. This is in addition to the general recommendations that, for example, wash your hands thoroughly, just cough in the arm fold and not shake hands.

- I don't see any problems with regular, old-fashioned football. Then I am more worried about American football and rugby where you have very close contact. In regular football, body contact is very short-lived, says Anders Randrup Thomsen to the site videnskap.dk.

During Tuesday's press conference on the situation in Sweden, state epidemiologist Anders Tegnell received a question about how he views the Danish study.

- It may well be true, but it is not the actual playing of football that we think is the problem. The big problem is that a lot of people gather, Tegnell says, and continues:

- With that as a background we have said that we think it is perfectly okay for children and young people to continue to play matches and keep up with their physical activity because it is very important to maintain those habits during childhood and adolescence. There the audience question is also much easier to handle.

As far as Swedish senior level is concerned, the men's general Swedish is expected to start on June 14. Damallsvenskan aims to start the last weekend in May.

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