CA and the South African board are continuing to work through details of the biosecurity plan to ensure the three-Test series, the first between the nations since the ball tampering scandal in 2018, can go ahead. South Africa, where a highly contagious strain of the virus was first located, is on Level 3 lockdown with more than 12,000 new cases recorded on Saturday.
Australia’s players are slated next month to tour South Africa, which is struggling to contain a second wave of coronavirus.“My personal view is that sportspeople generally should not be jumping the queue,” Dyer told the“The sports can and have been managing the situation without vaccines and should continue to do so. It’s just the wrong look. There are more important people out there with much higher levels of exposure who need the vaccines first.
“It’s just wrong and will only bring all sorts of people out of the woodwork saying “what the hell’s going on here? Why are they being given this benefit?” “The Australian men’s cricket team is scheduled to tour South Africa in February,” Orchard said in a CA statement. The Health Department said in a statement the Australian Government is currently focused on providing the vaccine for priority groups most in need of protection from COVID-19, based on the advice of the Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation .
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