The Lega Serie A assure there are no plans to postpone any of the two sets of fixtures coming up, even after Salernitana were ordered to quarantine, setting up yet more legal battles and tests of the COVID-19 protocol.
Serie A has been on a break for the Christmas and New Year festivities, but the time spent with their families and travelling has also created a spike of new COVID-19 cases among players and staff.
There were reports today that several games were at risk, both on Thursday January 6 and at the weekend, with nine players positive at Salernitana, eight at Verona and seven for Udinese.
However, the Lega Serie A informed news agency ANSA this evening that there are absolutely no plans to postpone any of the games.
That includes Salernitana vs. Venezia, despite the fact Salernitana were today ordered by the local health authority (ASL) to go into quarantine.
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The training ground is considered an outbreak zone after 11 positive cases, nine of them players, and they have been ordered not to leave their homes for at least 10 days.
The Lega Serie A had also refused to accept an ASL travel ban as the reason for Salernitana missing the game with Udinese on December 22.
This is setting up another legal battle over the COVID-19 protocol, but one Serie A is destined to lose, because the precedent has already been set.
It happened when Napoli were ordered not to travel for the trip to Juventus in October 2020, initially given an automatic 3-0 defeat and docked one point.
They lost the first appeal, but won the second with the Collegio di Garanzia, which set a legal precedent.
It means the ASL do have the authority to over-rule the football COVID protocol and force the suspension of games.