Tottenham have installed a drive-through Covid-19 testing centre at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium to help the NHS.
Spurs announced that equipment has brought into their home ground so it can "operate drive-through Covid-19 testing and swabbing for NHS staff, families and their dependents".
They are the first Premier League club to have opened its doors for testing, and the stadium has also been "repurposed and fitted out to house the North Middlesex Hospital's Women's Outpatient Services".
The initiative frees up capacity at the hospital itself to treat patients with coronavirus symptoms, while "supporting the redirection of pregnant women away from the hospital during the pandemic".
The announcement came after the club reversed its decision to use the government's scheme to pay non-playing staff on furlough during the coronavirus pandemic after fierce public backlash.
The club had imposed 20 per cent reduction in salary for all 550 non-playing staff, with around 40 per cent furloughed using the government's coronavirus job retention scheme.
The decision was met with widespread criticism with the Tottenham Hotspur Supporters' Trust (THST) urging chairman Daniel Levy - who earned £7million last year - to make a "further personal contribution" to the staff affected.
