‘Safe to resume I-League in March’

NEW DELHI, Feb 2: All India Football Federation’s (AIFF) Leagues CEO Sunando Dhar on Wednesday assured that it is ‘safe to resume’ the I-League in the first week of March, two months after it was suspended due to a COVID-19 outbreak inside its bio-bubble in Kolkata. The AIFF on Tuesday said that the country’s second tier league will resume on March 3, and the bio-security bubbles will be functional from February 20. “I think it would be very safe for us to resume the league. We are good to go,” Dhar said. The league was put on hold amid a surge in COVID cases driven by the Omicron variant but the country’s positivity rate has since come down. He said everyone has recovered from their COVID infections. On January 3, the I-League was suspended by the AIFF after a COVID-19 outbreak hit the participating teams inside the bio-bubble in Kolkata. A total of 45 COVID-19 cases had hit the league. (PTI)