What happens if a player tests positive for Covid-19 when group training – or even matches – have resumed?

That is one of the key questions to which Albion and their Premier League counterparts have yet to receive an answer as they prepare for a key vote on Monday.

Clubs will decide whether they approve the health and safety plan which will govern a return to training.

If they do, players could be back at it the following day, albeit in small groups initially and under strict controls.

A positive test during the early stages would be fairly easy to deal with and would see the player concerned isolated.

A Covid case later on – just before a match, for example – would be more troublesome.

The Premier League was shut down within hours in March after Arsenal boss Mikel Arteta tested positive in the run-up to his team’s match at the Amex.

Albion deputy chairman and chief executive Paul Barber said: “It is more complicated in the second and third phases when we are back to larger groups and contact because, clearly, if a player is diagnosed at a particular point in time, we have to then work back to find out who they might have been in contact with and whether then further tests are carried out and whether they are positive and what stage of the week is that.

“Is that just before a game? How many players?

“It is a very, very complex and it is something we are all waiting on from the league, to find out exactly what would happen in those scenarios.”

Asked whether clubs need that information before casting votes, Barber said: “I think in an ideal world you would want as many of the elements of the protocol to be in place as quickly as possible so you could see the whole picture.

“Having a complete as picture as we can as soon as we can means we can understand exactly what we are signing up to, right the way from where are now to getting back on the pitch at the Amex, or wherever else we might be playing.

“At the moment we haven’t got that.”