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England’s tour of South Africa has been abandoned due to concerns over a Covid-19 outbreak, the PA news agency understands. The increasingly inevitable conclusion was reached by the respective boards on Monday afternoon after three failed attempts to get the one-day international series up and running led only to scheduled matches being scrapped three times in the past four days. Concerns over the integrity of the so-called ‘bio-secure environment’ at the teams’ shared base – the five-star Vineyard Hotel near Newlands in Cape Town – have been growing for over the past fortnight and the rising incidence of positive cases effectively ended any hopes of further cricket being played. One Proteas player tested positive after the Twenty20 series – which England won 3-0 – leading to an initial postponement of the first ODI, but the news that two unnamed members of the touring party had also received ‘unconfirmed positives’ alongside two members of hotel staff, raised the alarm levels.

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