{"id":5729,"date":"2020-03-17T17:15:02","date_gmt":"2020-03-17T04:15:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/clubrugby.nz\/wp\/?p=5729"},"modified":"2020-03-19T20:46:05","modified_gmt":"2020-03-19T07:46:05","slug":"covid-19-coronavirus-status-update-to-clubs-community-rugby-postponement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clubrugby.nz\/wp\/2020\/03\/17\/covid-19-coronavirus-status-update-to-clubs-community-rugby-postponement\/","title":{"rendered":"Covid-19 (Coronavirus) Status Update to Clubs – Community Rugby Postponement"},"content":{"rendered":"

WELLINGTON\u00a0 RUGBY<\/span><\/p>\n

Due to the ongoing safety concerns regarding the Covid-19 outbreak, Wellington Rugby regret to advise that ALL community rugby has been suspended for four weeks, effective immediately.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

This means the postponement of the start of the club rugby season this Saturday 21 March, with all club rugby now re-scheduled to begin on Saturday 18 April. Contact training to resume from Monday 13 April.<\/span>
\nThese time-frames are subject to review.<\/span><\/p>\n

Community rugby activity includes the playing of all games, tournaments and contact trainings. We will be forwarding NZ Rugby\u2019s guidance on this directive later this evening.<\/span><\/p>\n

The restrictions do not prevent clubs from operating within their facilities, with WRFU urging clubs to adhere to Ministry of Health regulations in this regard; these include:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 Staying away from the club if you are experiencing flu like symptoms<\/span>
\n\u2022 Regularly washing hands with soap (recommended) or an antibacterial wash<\/span>
\n\u2022 Covering coughs and sneezes<\/span>
\n\u2022 Bringing and using personal drink bottles (not sharing)<\/span>
\n\u2022 Limiting spitting<\/span>
\n\u2022 Cleaning surfaces regularly (e.g. hit shields, balls etc).<\/span><\/p>\n

We appreciate this is an unprecedented step being taken for community rugby; however, this decision has been made solely with the safety and wellbeing of our participants, families and the wider community in mind.<\/span><\/p>\n

Wellington Rugby is in constant dialogue with NZR and the Ministry of Health about the developing situation and will proactively keep clubs updated with the latest information.<\/span><\/p>\n

In terms of club competitions, management is already advanced in terms of contingency plans to consider the various format options and will disclose these to clubs in due course.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

WELLINGTON\u00a0 RUGBY Due to the ongoing safety concerns regarding the Covid-19 outbreak, Wellington Rugby regret to advise that ALL community rugby has been suspended for four weeks, effective immediately. This means the postponement of the start of the club rugby season this Saturday 21 March, with all club rugby now re-scheduled to begin on Saturday…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5472,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,12,15,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-club-rugby","category-jubilee-cup","category-news-in-briefs","category-swindale-shield"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/clubrugby.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Lyndhurst-Park-relaid.jpg?fit=950%2C503&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbDiON-1up","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clubrugby.nz\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/clubrugby.nz\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/clubrugby.nz\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clubrugby.nz\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clubrugby.nz\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5729"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/clubrugby.nz\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5731,"href":"https:\/\/clubrugby.nz\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5729\/revisions\/5731"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clubrugby.nz\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clubrugby.nz\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clubrugby.nz\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clubrugby.nz\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}