Australian Open at risk after third plane affected by coronavirus

The Australian Open accentuates the uncertainty after the announcement of a third plane with players on board affected by COVID – 19 , after both first that accumulated a total of four cases.

After the new positive found on the QR flight 7485 from Doha to Melbourne, there are already the number of infected passengers who have landed in Australia to be present at the first Grand Slam of the season.

The first two infected aircraft forced a total of 125 passengers to confine themselves to their rooms for a period of two weeks in which the only training allowed will be reduced to both the use of the exercise bike installed in the bedrooms and to physical exercises that they can develop in reduced dimensions.

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– Sorana Cirstea (@sorana_cirstea) January 16, 2021

This new case shakes the tournaments that are scheduled to be played on Australian soil, the ATP Cup and the Open . Australian authorities strongly defend the measures against COVID – 17 adopted for tennis players and members of their team upon arrival in the country to participate in the Open.

The players of the WTA circuit Belinda Bencic Alize Cornet, Sorana Cirstea and Yulia Putintseva denounced the ignorance of the players of the severity of the sanitary measures applied to passengers sharing a plane with a positive case.

What i don’t understand is that, why no one ever told us, if one person on board is positive the whole plane need to be isolated🤦 🏼‍♀️ I would think twice before coming here

– Yulia Putintseva (@PutintsevaYulia) January 16, 2021

“What I don’t understand is that, n adie never told us anything that if a person on board was positive the entire plane should undergo quarantine ena. I would have thought better if I had known ”, explained Putintseva in his twitter account.

Cirstea, for her part, assured that would not have disputed the Australian tour had she known the applied measure and explained that the organization He informed them that those who were sitting near the infected person would be considered a close contact.

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