Rugby group that triggered 104 days ago still not house

A professional rugby union team that set off for an away match on 23 February have still not made it home.

Manuma Samoa left their Pacific island for an away match in Perth, Australia, more than 100 days back.

However on their way home they were required to quarantine in New Zealand – and were then stuck when their home nation closed its borders completely.

In Auckland, the team lived in a church compound for three months, with 20 players sharing one room.

Although they are now back in Samoa, they are half-way through a two-week quarantine – and players still have not seen their households.

” When we arrived in New Zealand it was summer,” the group’s video expert Hari Junior Narayan informs the BBC. “When we left it was winter.”

Manuma Samoa’s first video game of the Global Rapid Rugby season was on 14 March, so the group left Samoa on 23 February.

They had a two-week training camp in Auckland, played the game in Perth, then planned to fly home by means of Auckland, in time to prepare for a home match in Apia on 21 March.

However while the team were playing in Perth, the Samoan federal government made an announcement.

From 08: 00 on 15 March, the federal government said, anyone taking a trip to Samoa from among 33 nations need to spend 2 weeks in self-quarantine before setting off.

Australia was nation 33 on the list.

The team were allowed to get in New Zealand, and the Auckland compound where they held their pre-match training school was still readily available. That’s where their excellent luck ended.

On 24 March, the Samoan federal government revealed that, from 26 March, “all international travel to and from Samoa by airplane is stopped”. The team’s quarantine did not end up until 30 March.

They were stuck.

At the compound, 20 gamers stayed in single beds in one big room, while the handle