Side refused full exemption from quarantineIrish players will return home while rest of squad stay in JerseyBritish &
Irish Lions players based in the
UK will be unable to fly straight home following Saturday’s deciding Test against the Springboks, after
South Africa was kept on the red list and the government rejected the touring side’s request for full exemption from quarantine.
It is understood that rather than quarantine for 10 days in a designated hotel – at a cost of £2,285 per person – around half the touring party will return to Jersey, where the Lions spent two weeks for a training camp before departing for South Africa.