Three more Wasps players have tested positive for Covid-19, taking the total in the past five days to seven, but a decision on whether the club will take part in the Premiership final against Exeter on Saturday has been put back to Wednesday when the results of another round of testing are known. Bristol, who won the European Challenge Cup on Friday, would take the place of Wasps. They will resume training on Tuesday ahead of the decision on who will provide the opposition to Exeter, who are in pursuit of the double after winning the European Champions Cup on Saturday. “Following an additional round of Covid-19 testing on Saturday, Wasps can confirm four more members of the playing department have tested positive,” the club said in a statement which followed the announcement on Friday that four players and three members of staff had recorded positive tests and that training had been suspended. “Those concerned are now self-isolating, as are their close contacts. After consultation with the medical leads at Premiership Rugby, the Rugby Football Union and Public Health England, the club will continue not to train at this stage. A decision on whether the club will play in Saturday’s final will be made following the results of a further set of testing to be undertaken on Tuesday.” Bristol will resume training on Tuesday, when they will be tested, and players will not be joining the England and Wales squads. Asked if it was ideal that a team which had been knocked out of the tournament could win it the Bears’ director of rugby, Pat Lam, replied: “No, but nothing about Covid is ideal. You have to adjust and adapt. Wasps and Exeter should be contesting this final, but with cases of the virus rising throughout the country, so does the possibility of someone stepping in. If needed, we will be ready.” Bristol would step up because they finished third in the table following the decision to cancel Sale’s final game at home against Worcester after the Sharks recorded 27 positive tests in less than a week. Premiership Rugby has yet to say what it would take for Wasps to be pulled from the final, but it is likely to be an inability to name a representative 23. Only one of the four players who tested positive last week has been involved with the first-team squad this season, and then marginally. Wasps would not comment on whether any of this week’s three players were in contention for Twickenham.