The Premier League takes another step on the path to returning on Tuesday when players gradually return for individual training sessions for the first time since the coronavirus outbreak.
Players across the league have been tested with results expected to be delivered on Tuesday afternoon.
Players will train alone for a maximum of 75 minutes. Liverpool players headed to their Melwood training base on Tuesday, while Manchester United are expected to step up their comeback from Wednesday.
'I'll be amazed if nobody tests positive for Covid-19 up and down the country,' Jamie Carragher said on Tuesday on Sky's Football Show. 'That is something we shouldn't get massively hysterical about. It's bound to happen, it's happened in other countries.'
But what happens next if a player tests positive? In Germany's Bundesliga 2, two of Dynamo Dresden's squad tested positive and the whole team was ordered into quarantine, meaning their comeback match against Hannover was called off.
That is unlikely to happen here. In Germany, regional authorities were able to order Dresden into quarantine but in England, government policy applies equally to teams across the country, regardless of location.
The Premier League has been planning for positive tests for weeks. As Sportsmail exclusively reported in April, if and when a player tests positive for the virus, the show will go on.
Premier League medics have backed training and matches to continue in light of a positive test and clubs would treat it no different to an injury.
A rigorous testing programme is in place to diagnose positive cases as promptly as possible.
The Premier League has joined forces with the global health company Prenetics to roll out testing across the 20 clubs. Prenetics has also been working with the Bundesliga.
A solid date has yet to be chosen for teams to resume contact training but the Premier League's chief executive, Richard Masters, has implied that that will be the next step, and the key to solidifying when the season will begin again.
'I think once you know when you can start full contact training, and we've had a proper discussion about clubs over how much is required to create the fitness levels before they can start playing, you're then in a position to confirm when the season start date is,' Masters said.
'We haven't changed the start date; we have to be flexible about it. What we don't want to do is continually to move that start date.
A June 12 restart has been mooted but it has been questioned by players and managers alike, such as Raheem Sterling and Steve Bruce, due to the amount of time it allows players to return to full fitness.
Newcastle boss Bruce said players 'will fall down like a pack of cards' if they don't have enough time to rebuild fitness and Manchester City star Sterling is in agreement.
'You can't come back in with one and a half or two weeks [of training],' Sterling said. 'You'd need a full four to five weeks, especially if you're going to go back into competition.
'You're not playing friendlies, you're literally playing to win. It's going to count for something. You do need to do that preparation - you can't just go straight in.'
Former England and Arsenal physio Gary Lewin told Sportsmail that June 26 is a more feasible date for players.
'The amount of time they will have in full contact training before the first game is very limited, it could be just two weeks,' Lewin said. 'It's a bit like a boxer being asked to get really fit, but not punch anyone, and then go into a ring and fight.'
While the date that players compete against each other is still up in the air, the prospect of it happening becomes much more real now players are returning to training.
'There’s going to be more questions to get through but I’m more confident now than I was six weeks or so ago,' Carragher said on Sky, and his fellow pundit Gary Neville was in agreement.
'It’s a boost having players come into the training ground and there doesn’t seem to be too big a jump between phases so I think it was a big moment in getting football back in a few weeks’ time.'