{"id":175,"date":"2021-07-07T21:32:44","date_gmt":"2021-07-07T16:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=121956"},"modified":"2021-07-07T21:32:44","modified_gmt":"2021-07-07T16:02:44","slug":"british-and-irish-lions-players-isolated-after-testing-positive-for-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/other-sports\/british-and-irish-lions-players-isolated-after-testing-positive-for-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"British and Irish Lions players isolated after testing positive for COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Five members of the British and Irish Lions camp, which includes two players, have been isolating after a positive coronavirus test in the management team.\u00a0<span style=\"text-transform: initial\">The Lions said that the individual and four close contacts are being isolated and assessed at the team hotel.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The positive result came after a lateral flow test was conducted as part of the Lions tour screening programme on Wednesday. <span style=\"text-transform: initial\">Ahead of Wednesday\u2019s tour match against the Cell C Sharks, all members of the touring party have been PCR-tested, and the match has been pushed back to a 7 pm kick-off as they await the results.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Lions added that Wednesday\u2019s game will go ahead \u201cprovided the subsequent round of PCR testing returns negative results later this afternoon\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The latest developments are a huge setback to the tour\u2019s prospects. The Lions are due to face South Africa in a three-Test series, starting on July 24.\u00a0<span style=\"text-transform: initial\">The statement added: \u201cShould this be the case, the kick-off time for tonight\u2019s game will be adjusted to 8 pm (local time), 7 pm (BST).\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Springboks\u2019 scheduled warm-up Test against Georgia on Friday, has been cancelled because of Covid-19 infections in both camps, SA Rugby has announced.<\/p>\n<p>Lions managing director Ben Calveley said in a statement to Sky Sports: \u201cWe have followed all necessary precautions since the start of the tour, which included regular testing and rigorous Covid-19 counter-measure planning and protocols.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five members of the British and Irish Lions camp, are isolating after a positive coronavirus test in the management team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":179,"featured_media":23318,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[2137,1016,2196,2138,2190,1005],"class_list":["post-175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-other-sports","tag-british-and-irish-lions","tag-georgia","tag-pcr","tag-sa-rugby","tag-springbok","tag-test-series"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175","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=175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}