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New Delhi: India head coach Ravi Shastri has tested positive for COVID-19, resulting in his isolation along with three other support staff members who were believed to be his close contacts, the BCCI revealed on Sunday. Said that there is no threat to the ongoing fourth Test against England. Here.
Shastri, 59, returned positive in a lateral flow test (rapid antigen test) and will remain in isolation till his and others’ RT-PCR test reports are clear.
Among the isolated support staff are bowling coach Bharat Arun, fielding coach R Sridhar and physiotherapist Nitin Patel.
However, the playing members have tested negative in two lateral flow tests conducted on Saturday evening and Sunday morning. All players and support staff have been fully vaccinated.
“The BCCI medical team has isolated Mr. Ravi Shastri, Head Coach, Mr. B. Arun, Bowling Coach, Mr. R. Sridhar, Fielding Coach and Mr. Nitin Patel, Physiotherapist as a precautionary measure after Mr. Shastri’s lateral flow test came back positive. Have given.” BCCI Secretary Jay Shah said in a release.
“The remaining Team India team members conducted two lateral flow tests, one last night and the other this morning. On returning the negative COVID report, the members were allowed to proceed for the fourth day of the ongoing Fourth Test at The Oval,” he said.
Shastri is understood to have got the symptoms after attending the release of his book at the team hotel, where outside guests were also allowed. Arun, Patal and Sridhar personally participated in that ceremony.
“As there are no restrictions in the UK, outside guests were allowed during Shastri’s book launch party,” a BCCI source said.
“You feel for Bharat Arun. This is the second time, that he has had to isolate as someone else has tested positive. Last time it was the masseur Dayanand Garani,” he said.
The team is set to travel to Manchester on Tuesday and if all four are found positive in the RT-PCR tests, they will have to undergo 10-day room isolation and then test negative twice in order to re-enter the team. be able to join
“He has undergone RT-PCR test and will be staying at the team hotel and will not travel with Team India until confirmation from the medical team,” Shah said.
Lateral flow tests, the results of which can be known within 30 minutes, are not considered particularly reliable and RT-PCR tests are carried out to confirm the results.
All the members of the competing teams have been given RAT Self Test Kits to test themselves immediately in case of any symptoms.
The Indian contingent has been conducting lateral flow tests every day since Rishabh Pant tested positive for COVID during the three-week break.
After Pant’s result came out positive, BCCI secretary Jay Shah had urged the team to avoid large gatherings.
The COVID-19 pandemic has forced events into a bio-bubble in which players have little or no access to the outside world during competition.
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