Sports Authority of India updates SOPs amid COVID case spike

All athletes on arrival at the training centres will undergo mandatory Rapid Antigen Test

The Sports Authority of India has updated its Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for all National Centres of Excellence (NCOE) and ongoing national coaching camps in the wake of a drastic rise in the Omicron variant of the coronavirus. However, State governments' guidelines, where existing, will supersede these.

As per the latest guidelines from SAI, all athletes on arrival at the training centres will undergo mandatory Rapid Antigen Test (RAT).

Following a negative result, they will train and dine separately until the sixth day of joining after a repeat of the RAT on the 5th day.