IPL 2021 – Delhi Capitals’ Axar Patel tests positive for Covid-19



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Becomes second IPL player after Nitish Rana to test positive after entering the bio-bubble in Mumbai

Axar Patel, the Delhi Capitals allrounder, has tested positive for Covid-19. Patel had checked into the team hotel in Mumbai on March 28 after arriving with a negative Covid-19 outline, but has has returned a positive test since.

He’s “currently in isolation at a designated medical care facility”. The franchise’s medical team “is in fixed touch with Axar and ensuring his safety and well-being”.

Patel was once with the India team – Tests and T20Is against England – till recently, and made a significant start to his Test career in the absence of Ravindra Jadeja. He played three of the four Tests of the series, and picked up 27 wickets – joint-most with Dilip Doshi (against Australia in 1979) for most wickets by an Indian in his maiden Test series. He also played the first T20I of the five-match series, on March 12, the final time he was once in action.

He’s the second one cricketer, after the Kolkata Knight Riders’ Nitish Rana, to test positive since the teams started checking into their hotels in Mumbai and Chennai. There was once positive news for Rana, then again, with the Knight Riders putting out a video that showed him attending a team training session after an extended 12-day quarantine.

“I first got tested because it’s obligatory for an entry into Mumbai, so I did it, and I got a negative result. Then I flew into Mumbai, and came straight to the hotel. The day I came, I did my usual workouts within the room,” Rana said in the video. “In Mumbai, after the first day (Day 2) of quarantine, I got tested again. I did not have any symptoms. It wasn’t like I used to be feeling any different for three days or so.

“Obviously wasn’t expecting the tests to come positive. I had taken all sorts of precautions. But despite that, I contracted Covid. The protocols that I had to follow, the BCCI guidelines, or the things that my doctors had told me to do, I followed each and every and everything.

“On the 11 th day (of quarantine), I got tested yet again, and I got a negative outline. And on the 12 th day, today [Friday] I got tested again, and I got a negative again.”

The BCCI’s “IPL 2021: Health and Safety Protocols” manual lays down the rules and regulations for dealing with Covid-19 cases in detail.

Suspected/positive cases will be immediately lonely from rest of the squad.
The team doctor will notify the BCCI chief medical officer immediately.
The native health authority will be immediately notified of the positive RT-PCR test result.
The case will be managed in near coordination with accredited hospitals and remedy centres equipped with Covid-19 testing and remedy equipment.
All concerned cases shall be dealt with as per the guidelines set by the government relevant to that specific area.
Contact tracing should commence immediately. All individuals who have been in near contact with the case right through the preceding 48 hours starting from the time of collection of the pattern which resulted in a positive test, will be lonely and tested. All informal contacts in the final 48 hours starting from the time of collection of the pattern which resulted in a positive test, can be lonely and tested immediately.
All staff handling positive cases should mandatorily wear a full PPE kit (goggles, face shield, N95 mask, gloves, coverall/gowns, head cover and shoe covers) while handling a suspected/positive Covid-19 case.

This aside, in case of asymptomatic people or ones with gentle symptoms, the protocol is for the person to be lonely in a designated area out of doors the bio-secure surroundings for no less than ten days from the day on which the pattern which resulted in the positive outline was once taken.

As such, the situation in Mumbai, in addition to other parts of the country, is fairly grim, with a fresh spike in Covid-19 cases, which the chief minister of Maharashtra (of which Mumbai is a component) Uddhav Thakeray has called a “second wave”. Mumbai, Chennai, Bengaluru, Delhi, Kolkata and Ahmedabad are the six host centres for 2021 IPL, which will start on April 9, with Hyderabad identified as a contingency option in case a number of of the six designated cities cannot host matches.


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