MELBOURNE (Australia): Australian Open chief Craig Tiley said that the Grand Slam tournament is on the track despite fresh cases of another 25 players quarantined for two weeks on Sunday.
The players were ordered into quarantine after a passenger on their flight from Doha to Melbourne tested positive for coronavirus.
“The 25 players on the flight will not be able to leave their hotel room for 14 days and until they are medically cleared. They will not be eligible to practise,” the organisers said in a statement on Twitter.
A total of 72 players are now confined to their hotel rooms here for 14 days, and barred from practising, after coming into contact with Covid-19 cases on flights to Australia.
The Open was thrown into disarray on Saturday when three people tested positive 19 on two of the 17 charter flights.
A fourth person, a member of a broadcast team on one of the flights, from Los Angeles, tested positive Sunday.
None were players, although one was Sylvain Bruneau, coach of Canada’s 2019 US Open winner Bianca Andreescu. Another was also a coach.
Everyone on board was considered to be close contacts and ordered not to leave their hotel rooms for the 14-day quarantine period.
