The Premier League has told its 20 clubs to return to emergency measures in light of new Covid rules in England.

The protocols, which include social distancing, were brought in at the start of the season.

Clubs with high vaccination rates had relaxed some of the measures but must now reimpose restrictions to help limit the spread of the Omicron variant.

Tottenham's Premier League match at Brighton on Sunday has been postponed following a Covid-19 outbreak at Spurs.

A number of Leicester players did not travel to Italy for their Europa League group game against Napoli on Thursday because of positive Covid-19 tests.

The Premier League has not said how many clubs had been able to relax the measures.

The protocols also include wearing masks in indoor areas, therapy taking no longer than 15 minutes and medical staff required to be wearing full PPE when in contact with players.

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Tottenham's Premier League match at Brighton on Sunday has been postponed following a number of positive Covid-19 cases among Spurs' players and staff.

Tottenham's Europa Conference League match against Rennes was called off on Thursday after eight players and five members of staff tested positive for coronavirus at the London club.

Spurs were forced to close their first-team training centre on Wednesday.

The match against Brighton had been due to take place at 14:00 GMT on Sunday.

A Premier League Board meeting took place on Thursday after Tottenham asked for the match to be rearranged.

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Villarreal secured their place in the Champions League last 16 as Group F runners-up with victory over Atalanta in their rearranged match in Bergamo.

Arnaut Danjuma gave the visitors a third-minute lead in a match postponed on Wednesday by heavy snow.

Etienne Capoue added a second before half-time and Danjuma made it 3-0 six minutes after the restart.

Ruslan Malinovskyi and Duvan Zapata responded for Atalanta, who were unable to earn the victory they required.

As runners-up Villarreal will be one of the eight unseeded sides in Monday's draw, while Atalanta will enter the Europa League knockout round play-off draw.

Both European draws take place on Monday 13 December from 11:00 GMT in Nyon, Switzerland.

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