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NZ Qualify for Lord's World Test Championship Final

hendrix

hendrix

Hall of Fame Member
James said:
What's the probability of the Lord's WTC Final going ahead given Covid? Given Australia pulling out of the South Africa tour, I wonder whether the NZ Government and NZC will say no also in travelling to the UK. Realise it's still 4 months away, but Covid isn't going away anytime soon.
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This is surely the players ' decision and given they'll be paying for quarantine themselves when they eventually return it is likely low risk.
 
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Chewie

International Vice-Captain
How has the UK gone with their vaccine programme? Lots of people can be vaccinated in those 4 months. Wonder if the NZ players will be at the top of the list for NZ vaccinations (after the border/MIQ workers)
 
Bahnz

Bahnz

Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Chewie said:
How has the UK gone with their vaccine programme? Lots of people can be vaccinated in those 4 months. Wonder if the NZ players will be at the top of the list for NZ vaccinations (after the border/MIQ workers)
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Their vaccine programme is going very well because the vaccines are actually produced in the UK. I think they're currently vaccinating several hundred thousand people a day and 10 million have received their first dose. Not sure if they'll have vaccinated enough people to have achieved herd immunity by June (their target is to have vaccinated half the population by April), and you can't guarantee anything with Coronavirus - we could get a mutant strain between now and then that is resistant to the vaccine. But infection rates in the UK have fallen drastically in the past month (from nearly 70,000 a day to only 13,000 yesterday) so I wouldn't be too worried at this point. The NZers will definitely have stay in quarantine on their return home though.
 
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Chewie

International Vice-Captain
Athlai

Athlai

Not Terrible
RossTaylorsBox said:
Nah it's far too easy to rort that system, business "travellers" should be in the same tier as everybody else.
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Not that worried about people queue jumping when it gets to vaccinating anyone not deemed high risk honestly. As long as they all get ****ing vaccinated.
 
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RossTaylorsBox

Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Right, that's what I'm saying, everyone in the low risk group should be the last to get vaccinated, including business travelers. They shouldn't get higher priority though.
 
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