South Africa’s foreign ministry has said that a “full bio-secure environment” will be created for the Indian cricket team when it lands here for the highly-anticipated series next month and lauded the BCCI for not pulling out its ‘A’ team despite the panic caused by the discovery of a new COVID-19 variant.

India ‘A’ started their second unofficial Test against South Africa ‘A’ in Bloemfontein on Tuesday, staying put in the country despite the global trepidation that has followed the Omicron variant’s discovery.