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Australian Open rocked: nearly 50 players set for hard quarantine
The Age
Updated January 16, 2021 — 8.33pm first published at 12.28pm (Australia time)
The under-fire Australian Open has been rocked after two of their charter flights carrying players to Melbourne had COVID-19 positive cases, forcing 47 players into hard lockdown for two weeks.
Event organisers are scrambling to shield the event from coronavirus outbreaks and will nervously await test results from the final flights on Saturday that have carried more than 1200 people into Melbourne from virus hotspots.
After 24 players on a flight from Los Angeles that arrived on Friday morning were confined to their hotel rooms, a further 23 players on a flight that arrived from Abu Dhabi were given the same message.
Critics have attacked the decision to allow hundreds of overseas players and officials into Melbourne, citing the plight of Victorians stranded interstate by border closures, and at a time when international arrivals were cut as a precaution against the virulent British strain of COVID-19.
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Players have largely been tight-lipped about the need to enter hard quarantine but Frenchwoman Alize Cornet, who arrived in Melbourne on Friday night, questioned the measures.
"Soon, half of the players from the AO will actually have to isolate. Weeks and weeks of practice and hard work going to waste for one person positive to Covid in a 3/4 empty plane. Sorry but this is insane," Cornet tweeted.
Event organisers are scrambling to shield the event from coronavirus outbreaks and will nervously await test results from the final flights on Saturday that have carried more than 1200 people into Melbourne from virus hotspots.
After 24 players on a flight from Los Angeles that arrived on Friday morning were confined to their hotel rooms, a further 23 players on a flight that arrived from Abu Dhabi were given the same message.
Critics have attacked the decision to allow hundreds of overseas players and officials into Melbourne, citing the plight of Victorians stranded interstate by border closures, and at a time when international arrivals were cut as a precaution against the virulent British strain of COVID-19.
...SNIP...
Players have largely been tight-lipped about the need to enter hard quarantine but Frenchwoman Alize Cornet, who arrived in Melbourne on Friday night, questioned the measures.
"Soon, half of the players from the AO will actually have to isolate. Weeks and weeks of practice and hard work going to waste for one person positive to Covid in a 3/4 empty plane. Sorry but this is insane," Cornet tweeted.
Read story at link: https://www.theage.com.au/sport/tennis/australian-open-quarantine-program-hit-by-two-positive-tests-reports-20210116-p56ulj.html?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1610790749
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