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Rohit Sharma, Rishabh Pant, Shubman Gill and Navdeep Saini.
Health 2nd Jan 2021 6:26 PM The Indian cricket team may have become embroiled in a coronavirus biosecurity breach after engaging with a fan in a Melbourne restaurant. Cricket tragic Navaldeep Singh spotted Indian squad members Rohit Sharma, Rishabh Pant, Shubman Gill, Prithvi Shaw and Navdeep Saini dining in a restaurant on Friday afternoon. While boasting about the encounter on social media, Singh claimed Pant hugged him after he generously paid their $118.69 restaurant bill. As of Saturday afternoon, Singh s video has registered more than 177,000 views on Twitter.As reported by The Daily Telegraph s Ben Horne, Cricket Australia s strict biosecurity guidelines dictate players should only dine in public outdoors, but the Indian quintet is seemingly indoors without masks.
Updated Jan 02, 2021 | 11:54 IST
Rohit Sharma, Rishabh Pant, Shubman Gill and a few other Indian players have been accused of breaching bio-secure bubble protocols. Rohit, Pant among players in possible bubble breach: Report
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Rohit Sharma, Rishabh Pant were among Indian players who went out in a restaurant to each on January 01
The players met a fan who claimed to have paid their bill and clicked pictures with them
The players have now been accused of breaching COVID-19 protocols by eating inside a restaurant and meeting the fan
A few members of the Indian cricket team could have landed themselves in a soup by inadvertently breaching the bio-secure bubble protocols. Rohit Sharma, Rishabh Pant, Shubman Gill, etc. were out eating in a restaurant when they met a fan who claims to have paid their bill too.
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Prime Minister Scott Morrison has lauded the courage, resilience and attentiveness of Australians in 2020 - saying he has never been prouder of his compatriots after a year blighted by bushfires and COVID-19.
Australia is set to endure a subdued New Year s Eve, with people in both Sydney and Melbourne urged to stay at home amid fresh virus outbreaks.
The Australian leader s message comes after a difficult year in which Australia battled unprecedented bushfires and was forced into a virus-induced lockdown for long stretches of the year.
The Prime Minister thanked frontline workers during Covid in particular in his New Year s Eve message on Thursday (pictured: a testing centre at Chadstone Shopping Centre in Melbourne in October)