Morozov told the KHL website that 87 people had tested positive for coronavirus at the latest count on Wednesday (September 23).

A total of 132 had reportedly recovered from coronavirus after previous positive tests.

Organisers announced earlier this week that Lokomotiv Yaroslavl had forfeited their match against Kunlun Red Star after failing to travel to the fixture, while COVID-19 tests carried out by Lokomotiv were claimed to have irregularities compared to the KHL’s results from the team.

Dinamo Riga’s match against Dynamo Moscow was scheduled to take place tomorrow (September 26), but was called off yesterday.

It followed the Riga team being placed into quarantine until October 5 after recording five positive tests.

Dinamo Riga’s match with Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod had been called off earlier this week, with the latter also recording four positives.

Finnish side Jokerit were released from of quarantine on September 21 after the Finnish Institute of Health and Welfare lifted the period early.

The team had been quarantined after members of Russian side Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk tested positive, days after playing Jokerit in Helsinki on September 9.

Morozov has said there are no plans to pause the league season as it stands.

"At present, we are not considering this as an option," he said.

"Of course, the pandemic is a complicated situation, and nobody can predict how it might develop, but as of now there is no need to suspend the championship.

"And there is no need to get ahead of ourselves: we act according to the situation we face.

"When we drew up the schedule, we wanted to set up the best possible travel schedules for our teams.

"So it is not a good idea to start changing it during the season.

"That is why we are applying forfeits, or rescheduling games that are cancelled due to force majeure."

The KHL is made up of four divisions of six teams, the majority of whom are based in Russia.

There are five teams from outside Russia who are based in Latvia, Finland, Belarus, Kazakhstan and China.

Beijing-based Kunlun Red Star are playing matches at Arena Mytishchi in Moscow during the season after determining they would be unable to play in China.

Admiral Vladivostok withdrew from this year’s KHL due to the pandemic.

Last season’s KHL campaign was ended prematurely on March 25, midway through the playoffs, due to coronavirus.

Fans have been allowed to attend KHL matches, with some games operating at 50 per cent spectator capacity.

KHL President Morozov won an Olympic Bronze medal as a player at Nagano 1998, and was also a two-time world champion with the Russian national team.