{"id":4153,"date":"2020-12-02T07:10:13","date_gmt":"2020-12-02T08:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=4153"},"modified":"2020-12-02T08:56:20","modified_gmt":"2020-12-02T08:56:20","slug":"eighth-member-of-pakistan-squad-tests-positive-for-covid-19-in-new-zealand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=4153","title":{"rendered":"Eighth member of Pakistan squad tests positive for COVID-19 in New Zealand"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin: 5px 5% 10px 5%\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/arysports.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Pakistan.jpg\" width=\"742\" height=\"486\" title=\"\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Christchurch: An eighth member of Pakistan&#8217;s cricket squad has tested positive for COVID-19 as the team undergoes quarantine in Christchurch, New Zealand health authorities said on Wednesday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The health department said there was one new confirmed case among the squad and a further two members were being investigated, adding to the seven who previously tested positive over the past week.<\/p>\n<p>The department said the team would not be allowed to train together until doctors were confident it would not lead to more coronavirus cases.<\/p>\n<p>Director-general of health Ashley Bloomfield issued the team with a &#8220;final warning&#8221; last week for flouting social distancing protocols at their hotel. No further breaches have been reported since.<\/p>\n<p>Two of the original six cases last week were subsequently found to be historical, meaning they were not infectious, while the other four were active. A seventh member of the squad tested positive on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The 53-member tour party, led by skipper Babar Azam, arrived in Christchurch on November 24 for two weeks of quarantine which is mandatory for all overseas arrivals in New Zealand.<\/p>\n<p>All tested negative before leaving Lahore for the five-match tour, which is scheduled to begin with a Twenty20 international in Auckland on December 18.<\/p>\n<h3><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/arysports.tv\/babar-iftikhar-others-share-glimpse-their-quarantine-period\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">WATCH: Babar, Iftikhar others share glimpse of their quarantine period<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Christchurch: An eighth member of Pakistan&#8217;s cricket squad has tested positive for COVID-19 as the team undergoes quarantine in Christchurch, New Zealand health authorities said <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=4153\" title=\"Eighth member of Pakistan squad tests positive for COVID-19 in New Zealand\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4153"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4153"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4155,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4153\/revisions\/4155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}