COVID-19 Quarantine Victoria confirmed on Saturday night three non-playing quarantine residents associated with the tournament had the UK variant of the virus.“The residents arrived in Melbourne on a dedicated Australian Open charter flight on January 15 and returned their first positive tests on January 15, 17 and 18,” she said.Victoria reported no locally acquired coronavirus cases on Sunday morning, which takes the state to 18 days since a local case was recorded.
It comes as one positive case connected to the grand slam tournament was reclassified on Sunday and removed from the total number of cases, with the total falling to nine infections.An Australian Open player trains in their quarantine room at Pullman Albert Park ahead of the tournament. Picture: NCA NewsWire/Sarah MatrayThere are now 281 primary close contacts of the 10 cases linked with the Australian Open, with 928 tests taken in the past 24 hours to Sunday morning.
There was one positive case recorded in hotel quarantine but it was not associated with the Australian Open.Andy Murray has withdraw from the Australian Open after failing to find a workable quarantine solution.... Andy Murray has withdraw from the Australian Open after failing to find a workable quarantine solution.
Oh but we have to have our sports 🙄
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Australians will literally kill to hold a sporting event.
I can’t go interstate to operate my business and see my staff because of a few cases, but citizens of other countries can come in cause they play tennis. Forget the hundreds of thousands it’s costing us aussies
Please stop with this highly contagious rubbish. There is still no evidence that this is true, it's based on assumptions and models which prove nothing.
Cancel this now, before the virus ends up in the Community!.
What a f*** up. Covid is still raging all over the world, even worse than last year...now that we have it under control Tennis Australia wants to bring this sh** back into the country The stupidly astounds me. Have local businesses not suffered enough? Who will compensate them?
These should send them players back home we don’t want them here we go thru covid locks die already
We can call it the 'UK Strain' ..but cannot call it 'The China Virus'
Time to start formulating how this isn't Danny boys fault
And these arseholes were whingeing about their food in isolation.
You let people in. I won’t wear a mask. Dickheads
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