Nitin Patel, the team physiotherapist who also went into isolation on Saturday, has returned a negative RT-PCR test
As per UK government rules, those who return positive RT-PCR tests have to isolate for ten days and return two negative tests, so Shastri, Arun and Sridhar will have to stay on in London even as the series concludes in Manchester.
On Saturday, a BCCI press statement confirmed that Shastri had tested positive and all four support staff members had been placed in isolation in the team hotel by the BCCI medical team “as a precautionary measure”.
“They have undergone RT-PCR testing and shall remain in the team hotel and not travel with Team India until confirmation from the medical team,” the statement said. “The remaining members of the Team India contingent underwent two lateral flow tests – one last night and another this morning. The members upon returning negative Covid reports were allowed to proceed for Day 4 of the ongoing fourth Test at The Oval.”
In the absence of Patel, Yogesh Parmar, the second physiotherapist with the team, was at The Oval for the fourth day of the ongoing Test match.
As such, the two teams are understood to have been in separate bio-secure environments, and have only interacted with each other in the middle, during play.
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Nagraj Gollapudi is news editor at ESPNcricinfo
Source: ESPN Crickinfo