There has been a delay to the departure of Jamaica’s senior football team due to the Covid-19 lockdown in England and immigration issues in Saudi Arabia. The delegation should have left Jamaica today but because of the changes, the majority of the delegation from Jamaica will now leave on Saturday, November 7.

Members of the local delegation are to be tested for Covid-19 today.

The departing delegation scheduled to leave from the Norman Manley International Airport at 3:13 pm Saturday, will overnight in Washington DC, USA and leave for Riyad on Sunday, November 8. Meanwhile, the players based in Europe will travel from their respective locations to Riyad.

The majority of the delegation from Jamaica and Europe are expected to arrive in Riyad on Monday, November 9. On arrival in Saudi Arabia, the delegation will go into immediate quarantine for three days at the Holiday Inn Izdihar Hotel.

According to the JFF, the overall epidemiological situation could be described as controlled all over the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

The Saudi government applied strict measures in the early outbreak of the virus in the Kingdom with partial lockdown including airport closures and these measures paid off with cases going steadily down to 357 as of October 26 from a peak of 4919 back in June.

Jamaica is scheduled to play the two friendly internationals on November 14 and November 17.