With the new Omicron variant of COVID-19 spreading fear all over, Neeraj Chopra’s training trip to South Africa has now been cancelled.

The plan was to send the Olympic javelin champion to South Africa on December 2 and he was supposed to stay there till March next year. But the highly transmissable Omicron variant, first detected in that country, has forced the Athletics Federation of India (AFI) to quickly change its plans.

Source: The Hindu