I do not think the virus is an issue for IPL players anymore as India has successfully created the vaccine and I am sure players have already got their doze. More venue means more revenue and after the pandemic BCCI does need revenue plus fans also want their teams to play in the home ground.
Are you sure about this ? I never heard of India making the vaccine for covid-19. In our country, we are looking to import if from china or some other country. India is the number 2 country after the united states which had the most covid-19 cases. The risk of covid-19 still exists.
-Covishield (Oxford-AstraZeneca) manufactured by Serum Institute of India.
-Covaxin locally made vaccine by pharma company Bharat Biotech
https://vaccine.icmr.org.in/covid-19-vaccine India is called pharmacy of the world and she was already manufacturing 60% of world vaccines alone before the covid . So its not a surprise that India already exported millions of free of cost-Grant based doses to many countries and still counting. Pakistan is getting some Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccines soon under the WHO initiative "Covax". (AstraZeneca and India are partners on manufacturing drive).
Although vaccine jab going very slowly in India due to red tape, so far they only able to jab small amount of people (majority front line workers etc) approx 10-11 millions but i'm sure once private sector gets in the game then 200-300 million would get jab with in 2 months easily.
Risk does exits but details matters, majority of India heading toward normalcy. Covid variants could be dangerous but so far its looking okay. Majority of cases are from Mumbai and Kerala.
https://www.covid19india.org