Mumbai: The entire Indian team has tested negative for Covid after reports of fresh RT-PCR test performed on Thursday morning arrived around 5:30 the evening UK (10 PM IST).
The match was under threat after tourists canceled the training session and media commitment following the report on Thursday from fresh Covid-19 cases involving supporting staff members.
But a spokesman for the ECB said later Thursday that all subsequent RT-PCR test from the Indian squad have produced negative results and that test match “walk forward”.
Air panic gripped the Indian team team when the Physiotherapist assistant Yogesh Team Parmar was tested positive on Wednesday night.
The Indian team canceled his training session on Thursday and went to Quarantine, locked himself in each room at Manchester’s Radisson Hotel.
Players will be moved to separate floors at the same hotel in Manchester and become bio-bubbles.
They will remain in the bubble until the test ends and then reaches the UAE.
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The entire camp sighed for relief when the report became negative and ready to walk into a suitable test.
Indian head coach Ravi Shastri, coach Bowling Bharat Arun and coach Fielding Ramakrishnan Sridhar has been ruled out to attend the Old Trafford match after a positive Covid-19 test in London.