Team India returns: BMC relaxes quarantine norms for gamers, coach

The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) on Thursday relaxed Covid-19 institutional quarantine norms for Maharashtra-based gamers and assist workers of the Indian cricket group as they returned to Mumbai after their victorious tour of Australia.
The norms have been relaxed after the intervention of NCP chief Sharad Pawar, who interjected on the gamers’ behalf with the state authorities on the behest of the Board of Cricket Control in India.
The resolution to ease institutional quarantine guidelines comes a day after Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray is claimed to have rejected a suggestion to chill out of norms for Maharashtra-based gamers of the group.

Referring to the truth that the gamers and staffers had already been in a bio bubble in the course of the collection, a senior minister had sought that particular concession be made for the cricketers from Maharashtra on their return to Mumbai. But fearing a backlash, Thackeray had opined that this might quantity to discrimination, stated sources. But on Thursday, Mumbai-based gamers like Ajinkya Rahane, Rohit Sharma, Prithvi Shaw, Shardul Thakur and coach Ravi Shastri the place allowed to depart the airport with out being quarantined.
According to BMC’s guidelines, passengers coming from Europe, UK, South Africa and Middle East have to bear 14-day institutional quarantine.
The cricketers and the coach had taken a return flight from Australia by way of Dubai.