All players and staff have been isolating since last Sunday’s (June 27) planned reserve international match against England at Leicester was cancelled hours before kick-off.

Scotland had lost nine players from their squad on Friday (June 25) following one positive coronavirus test and the game was called off on Sunday after three further positive cases.

Now the Scottish Rugby Union (SRU) has cancelled the upcoming fixture against Romania.

But the SRU insists that it has "every intention" of fulfilling their fixture against Georgia in Tbilisi on July 17.

Those players and staff who have not tested positive will embark on a graduated return to training once their isolation period ends.

Scottish Rugby chief executive Mark Dodson said: "Player welfare is paramount in every decision that we make as an organisation, and unfortunately we've ran out of time to allow our players to recover and train properly for the Romania fixture.

"We're clearly disappointed, and I feel massively for both our group of players and management, as well the Romanian Rugby Federation, however our squad's health and wellbeing must come first.

 "We still have every intention of travelling to face Georgia the following week, subject to further medical review and testing, and we'll hopefully be in a position where a large section of the squad will be able to return to a graduated training regime next week."