Rugby: 2 Top League games canceled due to COVID-19 cases among teams

Two of eight games to open the 2021 Japan Rugby Top League season this weekend have been canceled after three of the teams involved confirmed positive coronavirus cases, the Japan Rugby Football Union said Tuesday.The JRFU said a total of 44 players and staff tested positive for the virus, including 24 from Canon Eagles, 13 from Toyota Verblitz, and seven from Suntory Sungoliath."The Top League has created COVID-19 protocols and procedures together with the teams, but there's still so much that's unknown about the virus and we feel threatened," Top League chairman Osamu Ota said in a statem…READ FULL ARTICLE