England Cricketer Moeen Ali has been released from quarantine after testing positive for Covid-19 on arrival in Sri Lanka, and has returned to the England team bubble in Galle after serving an extended isolation period, Cricinfo reported today.
Moeen, 33, tested negative for the virus prior to England's departure from the UK earlier this month, but returned a positive test after the team touched down in Hambantota on January 3.
He had initially been expected to isolate for ten days, but that period was extended to 13 with the England management's blessing last week, after the Sri Lankan government expressed their reservations in light of a new strain of the virus being found in the UK late last year.
Aside from being unable to train, Moeen has been kept away from his team-mates for the duration of the tour - and at one stage completed a 150-mile round trip from Hambantota to Galle and back again, when it transpired that the hotel that he had been allocated was undergoing building works.