Initially scheduled to commence in March in India, the IPL tournament was postponed due to the COVID-19. Now the 2020 edition of the IPL will take place in the UAE, commencing from September 19, 2020.
The VPS healthcare group has an extensive presence in the three emirates of the country – Abu Dhabi, Dubai, and Sharjah, where the matches will be held.
The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has appointed a UAE-based healthcare group, VPS Healthcare, as the official testing agency for the 13th edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL). Being the official testing partner, VPS Healthcare will be responsible for the COVID-19 testing for all players, support staff of franchisees, BCCI staff, and the wider IPL stakeholders for the entire duration of the tournament. During the tournament, the healthcare group will be conducting over 20,000 tests.
Also, VPS Healthcare will be facilitating the COVID-19 solution for the bio-bubble ensuring regular COVID-19 tests at specified intervals.
“Our responsibility is to facilitate the bio-bubble by providing COVID-19 solutions for the tournament. As part of this, we will be conducting massive COVID-19 tests of the entire IPL fraternity, including players, supporting staff of the franchisees, BCCI officials and other IPL stakeholders during the entire period of the tournament. We have assigned a team each for three emirates comprising of our highly and extensively experienced COVID frontline warriors who were at the forefront during the peak of the pandemic,” Safeer Ahamad, CEO of VPS Healthcare’s LLH, Lifecare, and Medeor Hospitals, said in a statement.
As the teams have begun to arrive in the UAE, the COVID-19 testing process has started with a speed for all members and players who are a part of IPL.
