The fifth test match between India and England is ahead in Manchester

This happened after team physio Yogesh Parmar had tested positive for coronavirus in Manchester.

Parmar had to take charge during the fourth Test after lead physio Nitin Patel was forced to self-isolate after being identified as close to Shastri.

Ahead of the fifth and final Test against England, Parmar tested positive for COVID-19 in Manchester. Due to this, the training session of Team India on Thursday afternoon was cancelled.

An ECB spokesperson said later on Thursday that all subsequent PCR tests from within the Indian team had given negative results and the Test match “goes on”.

However, there are no COVID-19 related concerns in the England camp and Jos Buttler said that everything is fine and the hosts are looking forward to the game.

“We don’t know much about it at the moment. It would be foolish to speculate on what’s going on. At the moment we are fully expecting the game to go ahead and we are preparing in a way that fingers play. We will go ahead. Things are fine in our camp and we are looking forward to the game,” Butler said in a virtual press conference.

This comes after India head coach Ravi Shastri, bowling coach Bharat Arun and fielding coach R Sridhar tested positive for their RT-PCR tests during the fourth Test.

They are currently undergoing isolation and can come out only after two negative results.

Despite star off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin not playing in the series yet, the tourists took a 2-1 lead with a 157-run win on Monday.

That victory was followed by an innings and 76-run loss at Headingley, where India were bowled out for just 78 since losing the inaugural World Test Championship final to New Zealand in June in England.

But at The Oval, where India won their first Test on English soil 50 years ago, Rohit Sharma scored his first overseas Test century and Shardul Thakur acted with both bat and ball.

Jasprit Bumrah’s devastating spell of reverse swing – 2-6 in six overs – was the key for England to lose their last eight wickets for 69 runs.

*With inputs from agencies