{"id":841,"date":"2021-01-04T23:12:19","date_gmt":"2021-01-04T23:12:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=841"},"modified":"2021-01-04T23:12:19","modified_gmt":"2021-01-04T23:12:19","slug":"england-all-rounder-moeen-ali-has-tested-positive-for-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=841","title":{"rendered":"England all-rounder Moeen Ali has tested positive for COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"c-sub-nav c-sub-nav--inline\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"content__primary u-divider-bottom@until-medium\">\n<div class=\"article article-news article-news-434027\">\n<div class=\"article__body\">\n<h3>Moeen Ali tests positive<\/h3>\n<p>England all-rounder Moeen Ali has tested positive for COVID-19 upon arriving in Sri Lanka and will self-isolate for 10 days, as will fast bowler Chris Woakes who was deemed a possible close contact.<\/p>\n<p>England are in Sri Lanka for a two-match test series that begins on Jan. 14, with both matches being played in Galle.<\/p>\n<p>The squad was tested on arrival at the airport in Hambantota and Ali is likely to miss the first test as Sri Lanka&#8217;s government protocols require the 33-year-old to quarantine for 10 days.<\/p>\n<p>The two-match series in Sri Lanka is followed by four tests in India in February and March.<\/p>\n<p>The rest of the touring parting will be retested today, before being allowed to train for the first time on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Moeen is the first England player to test positive for the virus, with a full summer of games against West Indies, Pakistan, Australia and Ireland being completed without any cases.<\/p>\n<p><strong>-Reuters<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moeen Ali tests positive England all-rounder Moeen Ali has tested positive for COVID-19 upon arriving in Sri Lanka and will self-isolate for 10 days, as will fast bowler Chris Woakes who was deemed a possible close contact. England are in Sri Lanka for a two-match test series that begins on Jan. 14, with both matches [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":842,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=841"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":843,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841\/revisions\/843"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}