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Australian Open: 47 players In quarantine after positive Covid-19 tests on two charter flights
Australian Open is one of the four Grand Slam tennis tournaments along with Wimbledon, the French Open, and the US Open. The 2021 Australian Open is scheduled to take place at Melbourne Park, from 8–21 February 2021. Because of the coronavirus pandemic, arriving players from abroad are required to arrive in Australia 14 days before the match. So, many of them have already been flying from different parts of the world by specially arranged flights. Now, a flight crew and a passenger from a charter flight from the US to Melbourne tested positive for coronavirus upon arrival even though there had tested negative 72 hours before they took the flight. So, two dozen players on the flight are now under strict 14-day quarantine at hotel rooms. Also, another 23 players who were on a charter flight from Abu Dhabi are in quarantine after one passenger, not a tennis player, tested positive. All these four-dozen or so players are locked in their hotel rooms for two weeks and can not practice for the tournament.
Indeed, pre-flight tests don’t always seem to guarantee a coronavirus-free journey. If those players had been fully aware that all on board the flight would be quarantined should one had tested positive, would they have had a second thought? They surely need to overcome a physical handicap.
Read the article and learn about how restrictive to travel under the pandemic.
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/01/16/tennis/australian-open-covid-19-flights-spt-intl/index.html
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