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The only place in the world where full stadium sports are possible

It seems an alternate reality but Australia showed that the sport is possible to full stadiums, with fans without masks and great athletes on the field.

This weekend an exhibition tennis tournament was played in Adelaide with more than 4 thousand people in the stands, thanks to the strict measures of the Australian government, which have said city with a zero contagion rate for covid-19.

Figures like Novak Djokovic, Serena Williams y Rafael Nadal they did not believe what it meant to play again with full seats, something they had missed for a year.

It was worth it because you guys made it special for us. We haven’t played in front of a crowd for 12 months and this is very special, ”said Nole.

According to statements by Australian Minister of Health, Greg HuntLast Friday, the country had not had a contagion in any of the states in the last 12 days.

For this reason, he congratulated the citizens for following the rules to reverse the number of infected, which reached its highest peak in August 2020.

That’s a testament to the work of our medical professionals, our public health teams., from Australians everywhere because of the way they have observed the distancing requirements, the way they have protected each other, the way they say ‘I’ve come to get tested,’ ”Hunt said.

‘A WIDER PERSPECTIVE IS NEEDED’

For the Adelaide tournament, the tennis players had to arrive a couple of weeks in advance to undergo an isolation quarantine, as that event will serve as a preamble to the Australian Open, which starts on Monday of next week.

During that period, the players had set times to train individually to preserve social distancing. These measures were even more rigorous because on January 16 it was reported that a plane carrying 47 tennis players had landed in Australia with people who tested positive.

But it has all been worth it to see a full stadium again, with fans free of fear because the minimum rate of infections allows it. This even when some tennis players came to complain about having to stay in the hotel all day, during their quarantine.

About, Rafael Nadal told CNN that tennis players lacked a “broader perspective” to appreciate Australian measurements.

AUSTRALIA, THE EXTREME OPPOSITE OF THE CRISIS

Until the night of January 31, Australia had registered 909 deaths that occurred throughout the pandemic, in addition to the fact that in the entire country they currently only have 59 active cases, and a cumulative of 28,818, which represents only 0.1 percent of its population.

Those figures represent the opposite extreme of the pandemic, which in the United States, the country hardest hit by the coronavirus, accumulates more than 442 thousand deaths and 26 million cases, the latter, which is equivalent to 8 percent of its population.

In Mexico, Mazatlán has been the case of “success” for having three games with fans since last semester, although with a capacity of half a stadium. The percentage of the population that in our country has suffered from covid-19 is 1.4 percent, although with a testing policy very different from the United States or Australia, with much fewer people subjected to them.

Stadiums with public have also been seen in Japan although in different circumstances, since last year they allowed 80 percent attendances, although as an experiment thinking about the Olympics and the fans forced to wear masks and not shout, very different from what happened with the enthusiastic fans in Adelaide.

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