That is the end of the Coronavirus and sport live for Thursday. Join us tomorrow for more news as we get it.

Andrew Benson
BBC Sport’s chief F1 writer

A driver could have to miss part of a race weekend if one of his mechanics tested positive for coronavirus when the season resumes, Ross Brawn says.

Formula 1's managing director said the chances of a positive test were "very low" because of the health and safety protocols that have been set up.

"If somebody comes down with the symptoms, you'd have to deal with it straight away," Brawn said.

"We would have to isolate that group until they could all be tested."

F1 has plans to create what Brawn has dubbed a "biosphere" environment to minimise the risk of spreading the coronavirus by re-starting its season, including extensive testing for everyone involved, medical support with every team, and an on-site test facility for rapid response.

Part of this plan is to create what Brawn calls "families and sub-families within teams" to limit contact between people as much as possible.

"If we do get a positive case then we can isolate that case and people who have been in contact with that person very quickly," Brawn said.

With the Premier League due to return in a fortnight some new regulations have today been set out as the competition looks to adapt to the unprecedented circumstances:

• Football's international law-makers have given competitions the option of increasing substitutes to protect player welfare
• Teams will be allowed to make five substitutions and name a bench of nine players
• However, each will only have three opportunities to make changes throughout the match in order to minimise disruption to the game
• Clubs have agreed in principle to the use of neutral venues if required, although the vast majority of matches are expected to be played in their usual grounds
• It is believed the number of people in the stadium while each match is being played will be limited to about 300

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The second season of the female-only W Series has been cancelled because of the coronavirus pandemic but there are plans to extend the 2021 calendar.

The eight-race series was due to start in St Petersburg, Russia on 30 May.

Plans for 2021 include at least two support races on the Formula 1 calendar, in Texas and Mexico City.

Britain's Jamie Chadwick won the inaugural W Series last year.

If you missed it earlier, prize money at this month's Royal Ascot meeting has been cut by more than half.

A total of £3.7m will be on offer when the meeting is held behind closed doors from 16 to 20 June because of the coronavirus pandemic.

Organisers said in December 2019 that they hoped to offer more than £8m.

The 55% reduction means all races will be run for a minimum of £35,000, rather than £95,000, while the eight Group One contests at the expanded meeting will each be worth £250,000.

Ascot had been planning to run its first two £1m races at the meeting, with the Prince of Wales' Stakes and the Diamond Jubilee Stakes increased from £750,000 and £600,000 respectively.

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BBC Sport will broadcast the V-Series Women's Tour from 17-19 June.

The cycling event will bring riders from around the world together for three stages of a virtual race on the RGT Cycling platform.

Classic routes from previous tours taking in Suffolk and Warwickshire will make up the first two stages, using 'magic road' software.

The final stage of the charity race, in aid of Mind and Breast Cancer Now, is 35 laps of London's Canary Wharf.

Fans can watch on the BBC Sport website, app and BBC iPlayer and enjoy commentary from Marty MacDonald and Great Britain's Olympic gold medallist Joanna Rowsell Shand.

The virtual tour has been created after the Women's Tour, which first ran in 2017, was cancelled for 2020 because of the coronavirus pandemic.

Organisers SweetSpot have applied to cycling's governing body the UCI to stage the next edition between 7-12 June, 2021.

The World Para Athletics European Championships scheduled to take place in Bydgoszcz, Poland, in 2020 has been postponed to 2021.

The competition, scheduled for 2-7 June, had been initially postponed on 26 March due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

World Para Athletics and the Bydgoszcz LOC are currently discussing the new dates of the event with relevant stakeholders and expect to make an announcement later this summer.

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The Six Nations could be played as a home-and-away tournament next season if the coronavirus pandemic prevents the autumn internationals going ahead as planned.

RFU chief executive Bill Sweeney remains optimistic it will still be possible for England to play planned Tests against New Zealand, Tonga, Australia and Argentina in November, but said several contingency plans were under discussion, including an expansion of the Six Nations to fill the void.

"The preference from both the north and the south is that the original programme will go ahead," Sweeney said.

"But of course that's driven a lot by international travel restrictions so both (the north and south) are developing back-up contingency plans.

"There are two or three different options we could go ahead with that feature more northern hemisphere competition around that autumn window.

"One of them if you'd play a Six Nations tournament in that autumn that would combine with fixtures next year and for the first time ever you'd have home and away. It's possible."

Tottenham chairman Daniel Levy has commented on the club using a Covid Corporate Financing Facility of £175m.

"We have always run this club on a self-sustaining commercial basis. "I said as early as March 18 that, in all my 20 years at the club, there have been many hurdles along the way but none of this magnitude - the Covid-19 pandemic has shown itself to be the most serious of them all.

"It is imperative that we now all work together - scientists, technologists, the Government and the live events sector - to find a safe way to bring spectators back to sport and entertainment venues."

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Tottenham have received a £175m loan from the Bank of England to help them through the coronavirus crisis.

The Premier League club are set to lose out on £200m of revenue up to June 2021 because of the pandemic, with no matches at their new stadium and a host of other events lined up for this year cancelled.

Atletico Madrid forward Diego Costa appeared in court wearing a white mask in the Spanish capital on Thursday to ratify a pact he made with prosecutors to resolve a tax fraud case against him.

Prosecutors were asking for a six-month jail sentence and a fine to punish Costa for defrauding the Spanish state. According to a court filing published last month, Costa, 31, did not declare payments of 5,150,622 euros (£4,610,561) from his 2014 transfer from Atletico to Chelsea in his tax return, as well as more than one million euros (£900,000) in image rights.

In accordance with Spanish law which allows penal sentences below two years for non-violent crimes to be exchanged for a financial penalty, Costa has agreed to pay an additional fine of 36,500 euros (£32,672) on top of the 507,208 euros (£454,025) to avoid jail time.

Sport's sweeping statements of solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement reached the unlikely environs of a largely deserted Marshall Arena in Milton Keynes on Wednesday.

Snooker's world number 78 Alfie Burden took a knee prior to the start of his Championship League match against Ryan Day, emulating the protests which have spread since the death of George Floyd in Minnesota.

The 43-year-old said: "It was very important. I stand behind the fight against racism. It's a disgraceful thing, the well-documented death of George Floyd in America.

"It was my platform to say how I felt about things. We are united together. There is no place for racism in society. That was my platform. I wanted to make my feelings known today."

Boxers are back in gyms and able to prepare now for the sport's resumption in the UK.

It has already been announced that events will resume behind closed doors in Las Vegas in June but the UK is expected to follow suit a month or so later.

Matchroom Boxing have shared images of world super-middleweight champion Callum Smith working out alongside his fighting brother Liam. You will note trainer Joe Gallagher sports a face mask.

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The Rugby Football Union have unveiled a six-stage roadmap for the return of grass-roots rugby in England., external

Rugby is currently at stage B, which allows small group training involving up to six players, with social distancing maintained and no close contact element.

It will escalate through larger group training, whole team training, match preparation and finally match play.

"We also recognise that other sports may return quicker in England and that rugby may return quicker in other countries. However, we will stay focused on what is right for rugby in England," said chief executive Bill Sweeney.

"We need to be cautious and will therefore only move from one stage to another when guidance and advice says that it is safe to do so."

We will of course bring you more on the Premier League meeting when we hear about it.

So who is going to be the first manager to make a point with a quintuple substitution when his side are taking a hammering on home soil?

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So there you have it ladies and gents, five substitutes per team in each game can be made.

Does that help clubs with stronger squads? Or will it help those with smaller squads keep injuries and fatigue at bay.

The fourth official will be using his electronic board a lot, that we can say with certainty.

Some news just in from the Premier League meeting being held today where clubs have agreed "temporary changes" to rules including the use of up to five substitutes.

"For the remainder of the 2019/20 season, the number of substitutes that can be used during a match will increase from three to five players," the Premier League said.

"This is in line with the temporary law amendment made by the International Football Association Board last month.

"Shareholders also approved for clubs to increase the maximum number of substitute players on the bench from seven to nine for the rest of the 2019/20 season."

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The Bundesliga's health safety protocols were not breached when six Borussia Dortmund players, including England international Jadon Sancho, got their hair cut this week and took photos without face masks, the club said on Thursday.

The 20-year-old Sancho, a rising star and a top transfer target for major clubs, and his team mates got hair cuts and took photos with the hairdresser without any facial protection, which goes against the league's health safety guidelines.

"He should not have done it," Dortmund sports director Michael Zorc told a virtual news conference. "We were all young once, 18, 19, 20." "In this current special situation it is not only the coach and the coaching staff but the entire club that has to be careful with discipline.

"We have talked to all those involved and they assured us that all hygiene guidelines regarding visitors were adhered to. Only for the photo were the masks taken off. That is something that should not have happened of course."

Frank Keogh
BBC Sport

Prize money at this month’s Royal Ascot meeting has been cut by more than half.

A total of £3.68m will be on offer when the meeting is held behind closed doors from 16 to 20 June.

Organisers had announced in December 2019 that they hoped to offer a total of more than £8m.

The 55 per cent reduction means all races will be run for a minimum of £35,000, rather than £95,000, while the eight Group One contests at the expanded meeting will all be worth £250,000.