8 teams to participate In IPL with green signal from BCCI
A few cricketers have tested positive for Covid 19 ahead of the IPL, two are quarantine at the team hotel, and one at his home.
In Mumbai a member of CSK and Ground staff of Wankhede 2 return as covid positive tests along with some members of IPLs event management team this when Mumbai reported over thousands of positive cases every day.
IPL amid Pandemic hot topic of the Town
IPL amid Pandemic is debatable now more than any time as there are people who are enthusiastic audiences of the league as entertainment and there are ones who oppose the Entertainment light amid Pandemic.
During this pandemic, the League should be called off. These times are associated with Tragedies people are losing their loved ones at these times sports are irrelevant and even disrespectable for those who are suffering. By all estimate’s situations are going to worse before it gets better. This is not a time for light entertainment. This is the basic argument we can hear commonly and which is true to some extent. But we If go through the thoughts of the people of this country we evident that there are people curiously waiting for the League even in this pandemic and trust me in terms of number it is a huge count.
But that’s when we ask that why? What is the need of having an IPL amid Pandemic?
In the middle of what is definitely, the Second wave of Covid 19 in India and probably more lethal than the first with the mutant variants and the drastically rising no. of cases every day especially in India.
Perhaps, you can get an idea by reading the following article.
For a minute just forget all the big salaries the players get and the profits that BCCI makes and think of the ground staff across India who got minimal salaries after almost the entire last season of cricket was wiped out due to the ongoing Pandemic and the Series went to UAE. Think about the Umpires Statisticians and the many, many people who depend solely on cricket for their livelihood. Why should their income be affected once again when the rest of the county is back to work in full force?
Complete crew will be the Part of the Bio Bubble –
It is important also to point out that everyone associated with the League is possibly among the safest in the county with the Bio-Bubble created by the BCCI following the most stringent testing and safety protocols. Think of the bubble as a most heavily guarded area, protected against the virus due to the strict protocols and rules in place.
Now, what is this IPL Bio-Bubble? How Bio-Bubble will help to deal with the spread of the Virus?
Through the following three-step process
- Test Negative before leaving Hometown – This means Testing protocols kick in even before the players leave their hometown.
- Then there is a 7-day compulsory quarantine in the team hotel with tests almost every alternate day. Once you pass all these check posts you will enter in the BIO Bubble.
- Once in the Bio Bubble, Players only leave after tournament finishes, o player or official or ground out for lunches for dinners and there is zero interaction with anyone who is not part of the Bubble.
In Bio-Bubble testing continues throughout the season for almost every alternate day.
Each of the Cricket teams and the broadcast team and officials and ground staff and even the drivers of the buses that the team travel in, all have to undergo this testing process and staying in separate bio bubble and their area of the hotel they stay in has been separated off from the rest of the public and even the least access limited to just the teams.
This IPL amid Pandemic will have its own Consequences and the fear can be seen everywhere. Everyone Including the BCCI is more conscious about Covid and its range of disasters. They are ready to take each and every possible step to defeat it.
Does this Bio Bubble concept work?
The staff at the hotel is also in the bio bubble with them committed not to leave and re-enter till the teams have left the hotels.
Now, it sounds like the safest of places to be in during such times. Let’s understand this with some real-life cases of tournament
Following are the Players who tested positive before the game started but the Bio-Bubble rules helped them avert the spread of Covid.
- Nitish Rana (kkr)
- Devdutt Padakkal (RCb)
- Axar Patel (DC)
There different levels and protocols for the Event Management team and ground staff to be in the Bio Bubble and everyone has to strictly follow them.
Then what is the reason for not organizing tournament as everyone involved is doing their work by remaining in their specific Bubble?
The safety of the people is pretty much the priority and there is very little chance of anyone associated with the league going out of the bubble and spreading the virus if they do turn out positive.
This debate will be endless.
What do you think, shall the tournament continue with all the protocol or it should be called off?
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