Australian Open’s ’prison with wifi’ grows as more players test positive for Covid-19

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Two more AustralianOpen players have tested positive for the coronavirus, taking to the number of cases linked to the tennis tournament to 10. AusOpen | IOLsport

MELBOURNE - Two more Australian Open players have tested positive for the coronavirus, authorities revealed on Wednesday, taking to the number of cases linked to the tennis tournament to 10.

One of the players, she told reporters,"has absolutely been in hard lockdown because he came in on one of the flights where we had positives". But the entire contingent is spending 14 days in hotel quarantine, with players not considered close contacts of positive cases allowed outside to train for up to five hours a day in a bio-security bubble.Roberto Bautista Agut, who told a TV station that quarantine was like prison"with wifi"He later issued an apology on Twitter"to everyone who has been offended" by the remarks, saying it was a"private conversation taken out of context".

 

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