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This has created a new uncertainty in the modified schedule of the event that was postponed for three weeks.
Players, coaches and officials will be flown to Melbourne by chartered aircraft. The first Grand Slam of the year is scheduled to start there on February 8. Among them, three passengers from two flights from Los Angeles and Abu Dhabi tested positive for Covid-19 and all were sent to the mandatory 14-day quarantine.
According to the organizers of the contest and the country’s health department, no one in quarantine can leave the hotel room. Players cannot practice.
A statement from health authorities said the coronavirus was found in the bodies of two people on a plane from Los Angeles and one on a plane from Abu Dhabi.
According to ESPN FC, the Los Angeles plane was carrying 2014 US Open men’s singles runner-up Kei Nishikori and two-time Australian Open champion Victoria Azarenka.
Nishikori boarded the plane after testing negative for Covid-19 twice.
Azarenka, the 2012 and 2013 women’s singles champion, arrived in Melbourne on Friday and wrote on Twitter: “I arrived in Melbourne. Thank you all for organizing this even in this situation. How many people have had to accept the hard work and sacrifice to bring us here. Thank you. “
The Kovid epidemic has prevented people from other countries from entering Australia. Meanwhile, everyone involved in the tournament will be flown to Melbourne in 15 chartered planes in order to organize the competition.
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