Dubai: CEO of CEO of the World Cup ODI Women’s ICC Andrea Nelson on Friday confirmed that there would be no change in the number of places or scheduling events regardless of the spread of the Omicron Covid-19 variant recently in the new New Zealand country.
The World Cup is scheduled to be held in New Zealand starting March 4, with the host taking West Indies in the tournament appetizer.
However, New Zealand has seen a surge in Covid-19 cases recently leads to several restrictions.
“We have prepared to host the World Cup here in 2022 for some time, initially scheduled for 2021.
We were on a good track and 35 days from the opening match in Tauranga and 66 days from the final at the Oval Hagley in Christchurch.” The first thing to say is that the tournament schedule remains as it is, and it involves moving throughout New Zealand, “said Nelson to a group of certain reports on con-morning on Friday morning.” We work with ICC in a managed environment.
But extensively, the tournament will continue nationally as planned, “he added.
On Thursday, Cricket New Zealand announced a schedule that was reworked to curb the risk of Covid-19 by ensuring that the team does not need to travel frequently for the match in both men and women events .
“Large changes in the past week or more have occurred is New Zealand having an Omicron variant.
But what does not change is our full commitment to hold an extraordinary event for athletes, “said Nelson.
The World Cup is scheduled to be played in six places – – Tauranga, Dunedin, Hamilton, Wellington, Auckland and Christchurch and Nelson are maintained until now There are no changes at the location.
“The plan is to maintain a schedule like six places.
Contingency steps are applied related to protecting the trips between the places as much as possible.
“We are currently performing the event according to the schedule previously published without location changes.” “So, there are no significant changes to the way events will be delivered for the players.
Most of the changes are related to the audience inside the stadium.” Nelson added that the New Zealand government did the best to “maximize” attendance at the event.
“New Zealand has moved to a traffic light system.
With the arrival of a new variant, we are in the red traffic light system.
And, bro, which places the presence in the event only in the 100 group.” So, the work we do at this time is how many groups of 100 can we suppose in each stadium, “said Nelson replied query by PTI about what changes had organized the omicron tournament variant.