Netherlands tour of South Africa at risk as Covid-19 variant lead to border closures

The Netherlands tour of South Africa is in peril as an arising Coronavirus variation of worry in South Africa has provoked stricter travel limitations.

The development of the new strain, presently named B.1.1.529, has provoked the UK to briefly suspend departures from South Africa, just as a few other Southern African nations, as isolation offices for returning travelers are ready.

A few individuals from the Netherlands side are contracted to English regions and live in the UK, which is set to forbid non-inhabitants from passage from early afternoon on Friday and uphold a ten-day self-supported compulsory inn quarantine on any UK and Irish occupants showing up after 4am on Sunday morning.

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With flights previously being dropped, there were worries in the Dutch camp that a few individuals from the group may even be abandoned in South Africa.

The first of the three ODIs will go on as arranged at Centurion today, however no choice has yet been made on whether the Dutch will stay in South Africa to play the excess two CWC Super League apparatuses after flights continue on Sunday.

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