New Zealand and Australia today put an end to the seven-month suspension of international rugby due to the covid-19 pandemic, drawing a 16-16 game in Wellington.
Some 31,000 people, without a mask, attended the meeting after New Zealand recently managed to overcome a second epidemic wave.
The last international meeting between the rugby teams opposed Scotland against France, Scottish victory by 28-17, in disputed on March 8, in Edinburgh, counting for the Six Nations Tournament, proof that will be resumed later this autumn, when four games remain.
The covid-19 pandemic has already claimed more than one million and sixty-nine thousand deaths and close to 37 million cases of infection worldwide, according to a report made by the French agency AFP.
The disease is transmitted by a new coronavirus detected in late December in Wuhan, a city in central China.
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