Australian Open gamers, employees requested to isolate after optimistic COVID-19 case

Up to 600 gamers and help employees related to the Australian Open should isolate till they’ve been examined for COVID-19 after a resort quarantine employee in Melbourne returned a optimistic consequence for the virus on Wednesday.
Play on the six warm-up occasions for the Grand Slam at Melbourne Park is prone to be closely disrupted on Thursday however Victoria Premier Daniel Andrews stated it mustn’t influence the Australian Open itself, which begins on Monday.
“There is a number of about 500, 600 people who are players and officials and others who are casual contacts,” Andrews stated at a information convention late on Wednesday.
“They will be isolating until they get a negative test and that work will be done tomorrow.”
Victoria, of which Melbourne is the capital, reintroduced the obligatory sporting of masks in indoor public locations from Thursday whereas personal gatherings had been decreased from 30 individuals to fifteen.
About 1,200 gamers, teaching employees and officers arrived in Australia on the center of final month for the yr’s first Grand Slam and went into necessary 14-day isolation.
The gamers had been allowed 5 hours exterior for coaching however 72 of them had been confined to resort rooms for the 2 weeks after passengers on three constitution flights taking them to Australia examined optimistic to the novel coronavirus.
Participants of the Australian Open got the inexperienced gentle to start exiting COVID-19 quarantine from finish of final week with most of them concerned on the ATP, WTA occasions on the web site of the harcourt main.
“At this stage, there is no impact on the tournament proper,” Andrews added. “I must say (the Australian Open) is important to us but the issues are much broader and that is about public health and public safety.”
Tennis Australia, who’re the organisers of the Feb. 8-21 Grand Slam, didn’t instantly reply to request for remark.