Brakes slammed on SA's United Rugby Championship matches over variant risk

This weekend's matches plus next week's in round seven in SA have been postponed due to the emergence of a new variant of Covid-19.

“The safety and wellbeing of our participating clubs' players, coaches, support staff and match officials is the foremost priority and the URC is now working with the four visiting clubs — Cardiff Rugby, Munster Rugby, Scarlets and Zebre Parma — to facilitate their return as soon as possible,” the statement advised.

“As has been the operating practice throughout the pandemic, the URC will continue engaging with our medical advisory group, our union shareholders and respective governments to plan according to the latest health guidelines.

Good! We don’t want them to end up like these guys on vaccines

Tulio needed his 5 minutes of attention and I have seen reports that his science is so incomplete it has little value

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