WTC Final: ICC Reveals COVID-19 Protocols, India to reach England on June 3

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Bio-safety measures were announced by the International Cricket Council (ICC) for the World Test Championship starting on 18 June in Southampton between India and New Zealand. The Indian team will arrive in the United Kingdom on June 3 after completing a 14-day quarantine at home and with a negative RT-PCR test report. Before reaching here, the Indian team will have to go through many tests. The players and the rest of the members will fly to the UK only after the negatives in all the Covid-19 Tests. After arriving here, the team will have to stay in isolation at a hotel in the Hampshire Bowl.



"In accordance with the bio-safety protocols established for the event, in line with the requirements of the UK Government and the public health of England, the Indian team will arrive in the UK via a charter flight on 3 June 2021 and carry evidence of a negative PCR test," the ICC said. Said in a media release on Saturday.



"Prior to the visit, the team must have spent 14 days in a bio-safe environment in India, during which regular testing would have taken place.



"After landing they will proceed directly to the on-site hotel, which is in the Hampshire Bowl, where they will be re-tested before beginning a period of managed isolation."



Players will then remain in a bio-safe bubble and their activity will be gradually increased with each negative result in a regular test round.



The ICC said that New Zealand would transition from the bio-safe environment of the ECB (England and Wales Cricket Board) to the final bubble of the World Test Championship on 15 June. New Zealand are already in England for their two-match Test series against England.