Covid has "ripped through" Cardiff City, boss Steve Morison has revealed.
The Bluebirds' match against Coventry City on Boxing Day has been postponed due to an outbreak of the virus.
That news came just a day before the Welsh Government's decision to move all sporting events behind closed doors. You can read more about that here.
"Some have been ill but not too bad, some have been asymptomatic and have tested positive," Morison said.
"People who have passed lateral flows have come back positive [after a further PCR test]."
The new boss said he was taken aback by the spread of the infection inside the Bluebirds' camp, a squad which has largely escaped the virus thus far.
"We're not sure what the variant is because they only test, I think, one in five for the new [Omicron] variant, but it ripped through, straight through. I've never seen anything like it in my life," he said.
"We've been amazingly lucky, we've had odd cases - a couple of them, Rubin [Colwill] and Kieffer [Moore], came back from international duty with it, I think we had Ryan Giles who was off once with it.
"But apart from them we've had nothing and then we've had this, which is like 'bang' and we've been wiped out - we've got more players with Covid than without.
"I know they've [the English Football League] brought in new rules about having a 14-man squad including a goalkeeper [to fulfil fixtures].
"I can tell you now we wouldn't get anywhere near that, hence the Coventry game has been called off.
"The training ground is closed until Monday, so we'll have had a full 10 days of isolation away from the training ground to give us the chance to, hopefully, put it behind us and move on."
Cardiff play their next two games away from Cardiff City Stadium, meaning supporters will be allowed to watch the Bluebirds in person. They won't, however, be in attendance for the FA Cup third-round clash with Preston in the Welsh capital on January 9.
"We have to comply with the Welsh Government, obviously paramount first and foremost is the health and safety of the supporters," Morison added.
"But from our point of view it's really disappointing that the fans won't be able to watch our next [home] game, which is the FA Cup game [against Preston North End on 9 January].
"It's a strange one... we're going to go from two games away from home [against Bournemouth and West Bromwich Albion] which the fans can go and watch, and then a game on their doorstep that they can't.
"You want to play football in front of fans, the fans make it and they can make the difference as well. So from that point of view it's really, really disappointing.
"We love the fans getting right behind us and driving us on. Some of the victories we've had this year at home we might not have had if the fans weren't in there.
"Footballers work incredibly hard to play in front of packed crowds and not play football in a park in front of nobody.
"It's what they live for, they do it for their friends, their family, they do it for themselves and they do it for the fans."
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