A final decision on whether to hold the France-Scotland match, the third for the Blues in the Six Nations Tournament on Sunday, must be taken on Wednesday, depending on the results of the tests carried out on the players on Tuesday.
One thing is certain: both teams want the meeting to take place.
In Scotland as in France, we are preparing as if the match of the Six-Nations Tournament, scheduled for Sunday, will take place.
It is however Wednesday, in the evening theoretically, that the organizing committee of the event will take a final decision.
The match is on hold because no less than 11 players from the XV of France have tested positive for the coronavirus in recent days.
The results, expected Wednesday morning, of a new round of tests carried out on Tuesday, will be decisive.
For now, one certainty: each team wants the match to take place.
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On the side of the Blues, if the tests were negative, like all those carried out the day before, then the French Federation will be able to affirm that it has succeeded in curbing the epidemic and argue that there is therefore no need to postpone the meet.
Especially since even with a strongly reshaped team, the Blues hope, against the Scots, to surf on their dynamic of victory, after two convincing successes, in Italy (50-10) and Ireland (15-13).
Scots want to play
For their part, the Scots are also in favor of maintaining the match.
Already because a change of date would imply that the XV du Chardon would risk being deprived of many players retained by their club.
And then, even if they do not admit it openly, the Scots are not against facing a XV of France cut by half of its holders.
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But if new positive cases appear in series within the Blues, the organizing committee of the Six-Nations Tournament would have no choice but to decide on a postponement.