A debate of national dimensions that is taking place in Australia regarding the restrictive measures that are worth welcoming for the development of the Open de Australia 2022. The government authorities of the State of Victoria have clearly positioned themselves in favor of strictness in all regulations, but their Prime Minister, Daniel Andrews, has gone one step further by challenging the federal government and Tennis Australia, pointing out that he will not allow under any circumstances that unvaccinated tennis players enter the country, according to words collected by TheAge. The deadline for making a decision is within two weeks and all the institutions debate among themselves, without fully knowing who has the last word to establish whether the unvaccinated can enter with a quarantine or, directly, they are prevented from landing. in the country.
The State of Victoria is the only institution that could grant exemptions for non-vaccinated people to enter the region
“I want to send a message to all the inhabitants of the State of Victoria who have done things well and have been vaccinated: this government will not grant any exemption to unvaccinated tennis players to enter here.” This is how Daniel Andrews expressed himself, seconded by members of his cabinet with responsibility for health management. “We only want vaccinated people. We have experience organizing large sporting events in which all attendees and participants had the complete guideline and we are not going to deviate from that path,” they commented. The pulse for the federal government comes to account that it left open the option that the unvaccinated do a quarantine, but for that to be viable, it has to request the State of Victoria.
With these words from Andrews, it seems clear that unvaccinated tennis players can say goodbye to the Open de Australia 2022. “It would be counterproductive to demand that the public, volunteers and workers have the complete vaccination schedule and then allow unvaccinated tennis players to come,” argued a man who hinted at the impossibility of foreign fans attending the event as public. While, Tennis Australia works in several possible scenarios, in order to be prepared for the moment when a final decision is made. According to TheAge, they have maintained contacts with the organizers of the US Open to copy their protocol for the controls and measures in case of locating a positive.
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