Players and staff exempt under elite sports guidance ECB confident Sri Lanka tour will go aheadEngland players and staff who travelled back from
South Africa on 10 December have been exempted from quarantine. The health secretary, Matt Hancock, said on Wednesday that anyone who had journeyed from South Africa in the past two weeks would have to immediately quarantine amid the discovery of a new strain of
Coronavirus linked to the country.
But the
England and Wales
Cricket Board said in a statement: “The team members and support staff who returned on 10 December from South Africa, as part of England men’s white-ball tour, have been following the Elite Sports International guidance concerning activity in the
UK. During this period, they have undergone ongoing symptom and testing checks and will not need to quarantine.”