Australian cricketers Adam Zampa and Kane Richardson have left India on a charter plane after pulling out of the Indian Premier League amid growing concerns over the COVID-19 crisis in the south Asian nation.
Zampa and Richardson, team mates for Royal Challengers Bangalore, were expected home in Australia later on Thursday, a spokesman for the Australian Cricketers' Association , the players union, said.There were concerns the pair were stranded after the Australian government suspended flights from India until May 15 to prevent virulent COVID-19 variants from entering the country.
India recorded 360,960 new COVID-19 cases on Wednesday, the world's largest single-day total, and the death toll surged past 200,000 amid shortages of hospital beds and medical oxygen.
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