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Sports teams coming to New Zealand will spend up to $ 7,000 per person on managed insulation costs, Finance Minister Grant Robertson revealed.
The Australian rugby team lands in New Zealand tonight for the team’s mandatory 14-day quarantine in Christchurch before taking part in two Bledisloe Cup test matches against the All Blacks next month.
The Pakistan and West Indies men’s cricket team will also arrive in New Zealand for the Black Caps’ home summer series scheduled from November to January.
The England basketball team will also come to New Zealand next month for a three-trial series against the Silver Ferns in Hamilton.
Robertson said Control that the sports entities will cover the costs of their managed isolation stays.
“It is a figure of around $ 7000 per person, that is the total cost … we have worked that figure with the teams [and] We believe that it will be a reasonable figure that will cover the costs of your stay ”.
Robertson said that if one of the foreign players or team staff members tested positive, that would likely mean the end of their time.
“Because the clock would start again for the teams and that would probably end up meaning that the games could not be played.
“That is actually the risk that sports themselves carry, to be able to train in a group you run the risk that if one of them gets sick, that means that the whole team has to retire, if there were other arrangements.” , we had smaller bubbles, so maybe you could handle that a little differently, but that’s where sports have landed. “
Robertson said he is not yet considering relaxing the quarantine rules for the All Blacks’ return to New Zealand after the Rugby Championship, but instead letting New Zealand Rugby, SANZAAR and Rugby Australia work out the tournament scheduling problems.
The final game of the Rugby Championship will be played between the All Blacks and Australia in Sydney on December 12, meaning the team would have to spend Christmas in controlled isolation under government quarantine rules.
