All of the Indian sportspersons which have reached Birmingham for the Commonwealth Video games beginning right here on Thursday and have been accommodated within the totally different villages unfold throughout the West Midlands space have cleared the Covid-19 exams carried out on their arrival.
The Video games have been hit by a spate of Covid optimistic instances with greater than a dozen optimistic instances day by day in the previous couple of days.
With extra athletes and group officers reaching right here on Wednesday night, the organizing committee of Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Video games and the Commonwealth Video games Federation officers have defended the measures taken by them.
The Birmingham 2022 Video games are being held with very relaxed Covid-19 protocols with solely the sportspersons and help employees requested to endure a polymerase chain response (PCR) take a look at earlier than departure and one other after arrival in Birmingham.
“All our gamers have cleared the exams, there is no such thing as a optimistic case within the Indian Contingent,” knowledgeable Rajesh Bhandari, Chef de Mission of the Indian group on Wednesday night.
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He mentioned all of the gamers have been made to endure PCR exams pre-departure and likewise on arrival and have all been cleared.
Two girls cricketers together with prime pacer Pooja Vastraker had examined optimistic in exams carried out earlier than the group’s departure and have been made it to serve isolation in Bengalore.
The Video games directors had reported round dozen positives in the previous couple of days as round 1400 sportspersons reached the second largest metropolis in the UK for the Video games. Nonetheless, they expressed confidence that the organising committee’s method to the spate of optimistic instances.
In accordance with a report within the web site insidethegames.com, Peter Harcourt, medical advisor for the CGF revealed that “Birmingham 2022 has been experiencing a dozen instances a day” in the previous couple of days as athletes attain town.
The web site mentioned the Birmingham 2022 organising committee’s Covid-19 coverage has been questioned by some main group officers, however Harcourt has defended the measures applied by the organisers.
“We’re in the course of a extremely powerful time within the pandemic. It’s advanced, it’s altering on a regular basis. I’m fairly proud of the best way issues are right here,” Harcourt was quoted as saying within the report.
“They’ve carried out a wonderful job. We hvae a lot of testing coming in so we will deal with the problem and preserve the competitors going. I’m actually assured that we’re going to be managing Covid threat nicely,” he added.
The UK authorities has eliminated all journey restrictions for folks travelling to the nation for the Commonwealth Video games.
It was additionally reported that the organising committee would deal with the optimistic instances “case by case”, with every testing particular person present process a threat evaluation earlier than deciding whether or not they need to be positioned in isolation.
The report mentioned that they’re taking into account the vaccination standing of the individuals and their earlier take a look at data to determine whether or not to ship them to the village or the quarantine lodge.
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