Decidedly, following having spoiled the Boxing Day plans, the Covid-19 continues to make its own in the world of the oval. In a press release published on Saturday, the LNR announced the postponement of the match between Montpellier and Toulon, counting for the 14th day of Top 14, initially scheduled for Sunday January 2 at 9:05 p.m. In question, many cases of Coronavirus which appeared in ranks of the RCT. The club had, moreover, sent the results of its tests to the National Rugby League in order to decide on the holding or not of the meeting.
Especially with the implementation of the new Covid-19 protocol, voted on last Wednesday, the players and all the staff of all professional clubs are obliged to do an RT-PCR test twice a week, during the first meeting of the week and two days before each meeting. This is the fifth game postponed, the second for the Toulonnais, following the arrival of the Omicron variant in France.
First scheduled for 6 pm Sunday, the meeting between Lyon and Racing was finally moved to 9:05 pm to “replace” the MHR-RCT meeting in prime time on Canal +. Hard hit by the Covid-19, the Parisian club has not played since its victory in Northampton on December 10.
