Posted by The New Zealand government has effectively canceled the round of SailGP scheduled for the city of Christchurch in late January next year. They have declined to provide the SailGP teams and support staff with places in their Managed Isolation and Quarantine (MIQ) system.
Without a reserved place to spend the required number of days in quarantine on arrival in New Zealand, no international visitor can fly into the country. The Australian round of SailGP is scheduled for mid-December in Sydney.
For the moment, the event management are saying on Instagram that it “is definitely going ahead”, but with more than 450 new cases of COVID confirmed in the state of New South Wales today, that confidence could be misplaced.
Strict public health orders are currently in place in NSW that would make running a regatta such as SailGP impossible…
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