Craig Tiley has ruled out delaying the Australian Open despite increasing pressure from international players furious about being put into hard quarantine. After positive COVID-19 tests stemming from their charter flights to Melbourne, almost 50 players are confined to their hotel rooms for the next 14 days with their Open preparations in disarray. Some players…
Australian Open: 47 Players in Strict Quarantine
The Australian Open lead-up has been plunged into chaos with at least 47 players now confined to their hotel rooms for the next 14 days after three positive coronavirus tests from two separate charter flights to Melbourne. Two-time champion Victoria Azarenka, three-time grand slam winner Angelique Kerber and 2019 US Open victor Bianca Andreescu are…
Australian Open Stars Enter Isolation After Arrival
International tennis players and staff have touched down in Melbourne ahead of next month’s Australian Open. The first of 15 charter flights carrying tennis players and officials for the tournament, starting on February 8, landed at Tullamarine’s Melbourne Jet Base about 6pm on January 14. The Doha flight arrivals were greeted by airport staff and…
NSW Issues Virus Alert for Brisbane Hotel
NSW has issued an alert for anyone who has been at the Hotel Grand Chancellor in Brisbane, fearing a highly contagious strain of COVID-19 may have spread across the border. The quarantine hotel is linked to six cases of the UK variant of COVID-19 and has been closed by the Queensland government for deep cleaning….
No COVID Cases in Vic, International Tennis Players Start to Arrive
The first of 1200 international tennis players, support crew and officials are expected to arrive in Melbourne for the Australian Open, as the state records no new COVID-19 cases. Victoria has now gone eight consecutive days without a local or interstate-acquired coronavirus case. It also reported no cases in hotel quarantine. Some 16,533 tests results…
Qld Quarantine Hotel Shut as Cluster Grows
The Queensland government is shutting a quarantine hotel after six people staying there contracted the deadly UK strain of COVID-19. Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk says all six cases in the COVID-19 cluster stayed on the seventh floor of Brisbane’s Grand Chancellor Hotel while in quarantine. They are all in isolation. All 129 people staying at the…
Queensland Quarantine Hotel Shut as Cluster Grows
The Queensland government is shutting a quarantine hotel after six people staying there contracted the deadly UK strain of COVID-19. Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk says all six cases in the COVID-19 cluster stayed on the seventh floor of Brisbane’s Grand Chancellor Hotel while in quarantine. They are all in isolation. All 129 people staying at the…
Vic Quarantine Hotels Pass Strict Tests for the Australian Open
Government officials have promised disgruntled owners that any residential locations used to quarantine hundreds of Australian Open players will be as safe as houses against COVID-19. The Westin Melbourne in Collins Street has been identified as one of the hotels slated to host the world’s premier players and their entourages for the mandatory 14-day quarantine…
Five New Hotel Quarantine Cases in Qld
Queensland has recorded five new COVID-19 cases in quarantine, as restrictions on aged care facilities and hospitals for Victorian visitors come into force. Each of the infections was diagnosed in hotel quarantine and acquired overseas. People who have been in Victoria since December 21 are now banned from visiting “vulnerable facilities”, including aged care facilities,…
Western Australia Overhauls Its Hotel Quarantine After Woman Escapes
Increased security measures are being implemented at Western Australia’s COVID-19 quarantine hotels amid a flood of complaints from people unhappy with their treatment in the system. They were recommended in a review prompted by the escape of a woman who failed to complete 14 days in supervised isolation. Jenny Maree D’ubios had arrived from Madrid…
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