{"id":173,"date":"2021-07-07T18:50:58","date_gmt":"2021-07-07T13:20:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=121811"},"modified":"2021-07-07T18:50:58","modified_gmt":"2021-07-07T13:20:58","slug":"the-british-irish-lions-game-against-bulls-postponed-following-covid-19-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/other-sports\/the-british-irish-lions-game-against-bulls-postponed-following-covid-19-cases\/","title":{"rendered":"The British & Irish Lions game against Bulls postponed following Covid-19 cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The British and Irish Lions tour game against the Bulls on Saturday has been postponed due to a Covid-19 outbreak.\u00a0<span style=\"text-transform: initial\">Due to cases in both camps, South Africa\u2019s Test against Georgia on Friday is also under threat \u2013 including Springbok head coach Jacques Nienaber.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Four Bulls players and one member of management returned positive tests. This combination along with their close contacts made it impossible for them to field a team.\u00a0<span style=\"text-transform: initial\">The warm-up game for the Lions will either be rescheduled or an alternative opponent will be found ahead of the three-match Test series against South Africa.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, with 11 positive cases among the Springbok party, including players Marvin Orie, Frans Steyn, Handre Pollard and <span style=\"text-transform: initial\">Frans Malherbe<\/span><span style=\"text-transform: initial\"> South Africa\u2019s second Test against Georgia is also under review.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"text-transform: initial\">Along with a masseuse, Nienaber is among six members of South Africa management to have tested positive.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>When the latest positive cases were revealed, the World Cup holders had already isolating for the second time in eight days on Monday following a positive coronavirus test by Lood de Jager.<\/p>\n<p>Four members of the Georgian team have also tested positive. As quoted by Sky Sports, Jurie Roux, CEO of SA Rugby said\u00a0<span style=\"text-transform: initial\">\u201cThese positive results are a setback and have underlined the danger of transmissibility of the delta variant.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The British and Irish Lions tour match against Vodacom Bulls on Saturday has been postponed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":179,"featured_media":23316,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[2137,2189,1016,2138,254,2190,340],"class_list":["post-173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-other-sports","tag-british-and-irish-lions","tag-bulls","tag-georgia","tag-sa-rugby","tag-south-africa","tag-springbok","tag-world-cup"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/179"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}