The swimming continental event was originally scheduled to take place last year from November 7 to 17, but was postponed by 12 months due to the pandemic.
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This year’s Asian Swimming Championships, due to be held at the Aquatics Centre in the Philippines’ New Clark City, has been postponed for 2023 because of COVID-19 restrictions. The swimming continental event was originally scheduled to take place last year from November 7 to 17, but was postponed by 12 months due to the pandemic. And then, it had been planned that the championship would be staged this month, but the Asia Swimming Federation (AASF) has now been forced to put it back to 2023.
This means an end to the 2021 season for the Indian swimmers including Srihari Nataraj, Maana Patel and Sajan Prajkash. Meanwhile the Asian Swimming Championships is usually staged every four years, with the last edition being held in the Japanese capital in Tokyo in 2016. As per the reports coming in, the National Federations will get further information in the future.
The 11th edition of the championships is scheduled for the Aquatics Centre situated in the Capas Municipality, of the Tarlac province. Swimming, diving and water polo events at the 2019 Southeast Asian Games in the Philippines were held there.
The New Clark City Aquatics Centre recently hosted its first swimming event since the Southeast Asian games, with Filipino athletes entering a bio-bubble to compete.
Meanwhile the competition has now been delayed twice. Restrictions on international travel remain in place in the Philippines, which follows a “traffic light” system. Furthermore, unvaccinated players and officials will have to undergo 14-day mandatory quarantine. For the first seven days at a designated hotel and then the remaining seven days at home if a polymerase chain reaction test is returned negative.
Meanwhile for yellow listed countries, only citizens of the country or those with valid visas and their families would be able to enter the Philippines, undergoing a 10-day quarantine if fully vaccinated. For passengers traveling from countries in the red list, the Philippines has set more stringent COVID-19 restrictions.
The country has been badly hit by the corona virus like most of the other countries in the world. The biggest wave of daily infections were recorded during September. Now, the cases have dropped to 2,000 in recent days. The country has recorded almost 2.8 million cases since the start of the pandemic and 43,825 deaths.
