Coronavirus | Eight groundsmen at Wankhede Stadium test positive
The Hindu
The development comes barely a week before the IPL 2021 is scheduled to begin.
Eight groundstaff members at the Wankhede Stadium have tested COVID-19 positive during the tests conducted ahead of the Indian Premier League’s (IPL’s) 2021 edition. The Wankhede is scheduled to host 10 league games from April 10 to 25. The Hindu understands all the 19 groundstaff members at the Wankhede Stadium underwent RT-PCR tests over the last week. While three were confirmed to have contracted the virus during the tests conducted on March 26, five more test reports conducted on April 1 returned positive on Friday. It could not be ascertained whether the remaining groundstaffers were isolated after a few had been infected during the first round of testing.More Related News
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