The Premier League have decided not to postpone fixtures over the festive period despite calls for a firebreak amid rising Covid-19 cases.
The division's 20 clubs met on Monday to discuss how the season would continue.
A total of nine matches in the English top flight have been postponed since the Omicron variant of coronavirus began to rapidly spread across the UK.
The English Football League will also carry on as normal, while the FA have confirmed that replays in the Third and Fourth rounds of the FA Cup will be scrapped, helping to lessen mounting fixture congestion in 2022.
Managers were beginning to question the integrity of the season ahead of the upcoming festive fixtures but after Monday's meeting, the final two gameweeks of 2021 will go ahead.
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A statement from the Premier League read: "While recognising a number of clubs are experiencing COVID-19 outbreaks and challenges, it is the league’s collective intention to continue the current fixture schedule where safely possible."
It has also been revealed that 77% of Premier League players have received two doses of the Covid-19 vaccine, while 92% of players and club have staff have had at least one jab.
Chelsea were left infuriated on Sunday as the Blues were forced to play their match at Wolverhampton Wanderers with just four outfield players on the bench due an outbreak of positive tests at Stamford Bridge.
Meanwhile, Liverpool have also been struck by multiple cases and played this weekend, drawing 2-2 away to Tottenham Hotspur.
After the match, manager Jurgen Klopp made his feelings clear on whether a firebreak was needed.
''If we don't play anymore and we have a break I am completely fine with that as well," the Reds boss said.
"I know the problem is now going to be when do we play the games, it's not so easy to find spaces wherever you can fit it in here and there.
"Teams who are not involved in international football, there might be a few spots where you can play, but we are in honest pretty much full until the end of May.
"They said before [Covid] that the schedule was a little busy and now all of sudden it comes back and gives us another punch. In truth we cannot carry on like this and that's what we have too consider as well.''
Chelsea manager Thomas Tuchel was more bullish when giving his views, hinting at a no-show when the Covid-hit Blues visit Brentford for a League Cup semi-final on Wednesday.
The German fumed after his side's Sunday stalemate: "It will hopefully stop but it’s more or less hoping. There is nothing else to do.
"If we have the next test and the next positive I would like to speak to the people from the Premier League what they expect.
"Shall we stop and not arrive in the next game if we are made to play?
"When they make us play against Brentford shall we not arrive?
"Shall we not train anymore? What shall we do?
"I don't care so much about the next games I just care about the next tests and the health of the players.
"We were just worried about the safety of players and the players were concerned about their health.
"The Premier League had an opinion and we had a different opinion so we agree to disagree."
