'We're not paying': Three new cases linked to Aus Open as government insists it's not footing quarantine bill

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Two Australian Open tennis players and a support person have tested positive to COVID-19 in quarantine, although one player is strongly suspected of shedding the virus.

But Police Minister Lisa Neville, who is overseeing Victoria's hotel quarantine program, revealed that three new cases linked to the Australian Open came to light on Wednesday morning, after official figures were released."I'm aware of these figures and I wanted to share them with you because there's been a lot of debate about how many people we have in the Australian Open who are positive," she said. "This morning we became aware of three more positives.

"If they are positive those two will go into the health hotel and the two bubble people will be considered close contacts and will be in lockdown for the 14 days." "The quarantine costs ... we don't know that exact figure yet ... will probably end up being over $40 million. "I want to be really clear about this," she said, "hotel quarantine for the Australian Open is fully funded by Tennis Australia, I've triple confirmed that again today.

"If the Australian Open does not happen in Melbourne it will happen somewhere else. It'll happen in Japan, it'll happen in China, it'll happen in Singapore and the real risk then is it doesn't come back.""If you miss a year of hosting and then you run the risk of potentially missing a second year, then you start to lose the importance."

 

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