Jurgen Klopp believes the Premier League can avoid implementing a temporary shutdown.
Two matches were postponed in the space of three days following coronavirus outbreaks at Manchester City and Fulham earlier this week.
Top flight chiefs remain committed to pressing ahead with the season as planned despite growing calls for a two-week pause to reduce infections.
West Brom manager Sam Allardyce has led the clamour for a so-called ‘circuit-breaker’ to the league schedule in order to limit further potential disruption.
But Klopp insists that the Premier League can continue despite acknowledging that the game’s rate of infection has risen in line with the UK as a whole.
He said: “I think the competition can go on and I think it’s important as well.
“People want to watch it and we are, in this case, not part of the society, the one we usually live in – isolated, go to the training ground and stuff like this.
“So I think we can carry on but I’m no specialist and I respect all the decisions made in the next few weeks.
‘We all try to do our best to keep the competition going. We knew in the winter there would probably be a second wave.
“On top of that, for us as a society, Christmas is a challenge when it’s about self-isolation.
“So I’m not surprised the numbers go up and then in football the numbers go slightly up.”
The Liverpool manager also provided an update on Virgil van Dijk’s road to recovery after the defender posted videos of himself using an exercise bike.
“Progress is good but there’s still a long way to go,” admitted Klopp.
“I can be happy when I see these videos because it shows we make good progress but, with this type of injury, it will still take a lot of time.
“I would like to say something else but these are the facts.”