By Mimy
picture: AFP
MELBOURNE - Up to 600 tennis players and support staff connected to the Australian Open will have to isolate until they have been tested for Covid-19 after a hotel quarantine worker in Melbourne returned a positive result for the coronavirus.
Play at the six warm-up events for the Grand Slam at Melbourne Park was heavily disrupted with organisers Tennis Australia cancelling all matches for Thursday.
"There is a number of about 500, 600 people who are players and officials and others who are casual contacts," he said at a news conference.
"They will be isolating until they get a negative test and that work will be done tomorrow."
About 1,200 players, coaching staff and officials arrived in Australia at the middle of last month for the year's first Grand Slam and went into a mandatory 14-day isolation.
The players were allowed five hours outside for training but 72 of them were confined to hotel rooms for the two weeks, after passengers on three charter flights taking them to Australia tested positive to the coronavirus.
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