He Open de Australia It accentuates the uncertainty after the third plane with players on board affected by coronavirus, after the first two that accumulated a total of four cases.
After the new positive found on flight QR7485 from Doha to Melbourne, there are now five infected passengers who have landed in Australia to be present at the first Grand Slam of the season.
The first two infected planes 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 stationary bike installed in the bedrooms and the physical exercises that can develop in reduced dimensions.
The Spanish Carlos Alcaraz placeholder image and Mario Vilellaas well as the coach and former number one Juan Carlos Ferrero placeholder image, remain confined to their hotel rooms in Melbourne, having flown on this plane from Doha after signing their pass to the final box.
One of them, contacted by EFE, has indicated that they are speaking with the director of the tournament, to follow instructions, and that this period of isolation could be reduced.
This new case shakes the tournaments that are scheduled to be played on Australian soil, the ATP Cup and the Australian Open.
Australian authorities vigorously defend the measures against covid-19 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 anti-covid measures applied to passengers who share a plane with a positive case.
“What I don’t understand is that, nobody ever told us anything that if a person on board was positive the entire plane should be quarantined. I would have thought better of it if I had known,” he explained Putintseva on his Twitter account.
CirsteaFor his part, he assured that he would not have disputed the Australian tour if he had known the measure applied and explained that the organization informed them that those who were sitting near the infected person would be considered a close contact.
