Tony Mowbray reported one player and one member of staff have tested positive for coronavirus.

Another player will be forced to miss the weekend’s game with Birmingham City having been identified as a close contact and is unvaccinated. That is despite returning a negative PCR test.

Two other players identified as close contacts on the journey back from Bournemouth have recorded negative PCR tests and have been able to return to training due to being double-jabbed.

Things are clearing up on the injury front, with Thomas Kaminski, Ryan Nyambe, Scott Wharton and Bradley Johnson all available to play after recent issues.

Asked for an update on Covid cases, Mowbray said: “Definitely one player and one member of staff. On the back of that there are close contacts, we sat on a bus for five-and-a-half hours coming back from Bournemouth.

“Sunday morning was the first positive, the players around him have been isolating.

“Fortunately for us, two of those players are double-vaccinated and two of those are without vaccinations and won’t be allowed to play even though they have had negative PCR tests. The two that are vaccinated are back in training.”

Five Championship matches have already been postponed, with a further two looking set to go the same way.

The issues have been experienced across the EFL and in the Premier League.

The EFL have now clarified that sides 'will be expected to fulfil fixtures' if they have 14 of their 25-man squad, including a goalkeeper, available.

Speaking before that announcement, Tony Mowbray said: “I don’t understand why in a world where everything is driven by everyone knowing everything that no-one is telling you how many players are acceptable to be missed before you can call off a game.

“If they can’t play because they are quarantining, are they included because they can’t play?

“I don’t know the rules and I don’t think anyone else does.

“We all feel vulnerable.

“Who’s to say tomorrow that we don’t get a call from Birmingham that they can’t play?

“I want to know how many players, it seems to be a bit brushed under the carpet.

“Someone soon surely has to come out and say there is an exact number.

“At the moment I’m hearing the Premier League are saying they’re taking each case independently and I can see the grey areas.

“If we’ve only had one positive but six other contacts, that’s still six players that can’t play.

“Is that enough for us to call it off or is the ones with the positive test?

“I don’t know the answer and those are the grey areas.

“All I know as a club is that we’re right in the middle of it.”

The players had a meeting ahead of training today where it was explained that certain measures would be returning to how they were during Project Restart. 

Mowbray added: “We had a meeting pre-Bournemouth and I was conscious there are pictures of players coming off the coach without masks on and I think in my mind that’s acceptable to the point where it’s only been over the weekend that it’s gone from being an amber light that Covid is coming back to big huge flashing red lights now so everyone now will be masked, socially distanced.

“We’ve had a meeting this morning in a big massive gym and everyone is back to the scenario of no car sharing, the dressing room situation will go back to what it was, two coaches to away games and we just hope the supporters can keep coming and the games can keep being played.

“We are in a position where we want to keep playing football matches at this moment.”