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Easy access Covid tests for UK-bound India contingent
The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has sought coordinates and home addresses of all the England-bound contingent, family members included, so that it can organize RT-PCR tests at the doorsteps of each. The board managers will send medical teams to the houses of every member, in whichever part of the country he and his family is, to have the Covid-19 tests done on them. The tests are expected to be done in the next couple of days.
BCCI is still awaiting a formal health advisory from the UK government via the International Cricket Council (ICC), the organizers of the World Test Championship (WTC) final, but meanwhile, the board has decided that it will enforce two-week quarantine for the contingent. The quarantine will take place in Mumbai but the local members of the contingent may be granted an exemption of a week on the strict condition that they don't move out of their houses.
Cricbuzz has learnt that the isolation period will start around May 18-19 so that the two-week self-seclusion will be over by the time the team is scheduled to take off for the UK, most likely on June 2. Apart from the WTC final against New Zealand from June 18, India will play five Tests against England in August-September.
