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Australian Open: for two cases of coronavirus on a flight, more than 20 tennis players will have to quarantine for 14 days in a hotel room

2021-01-16T11:40:43.760Z


The cases were detected on a plane going from Los Angeles to Melbourne. Two Argentines involved.


01/16/2021 5:35 AM

  • Clarín.com

  • sports

Updated 01/16/2021 5:59 AM

The charter flight QR7493 from Los Angeles to Melbourne set

off alarms

in the Australian Open organization after two of its passengers, one of them the Mexican Santiago González (155th ranked in the world), tested positive for coronavirus made after landing in the capital of the Australian state of Victoria.

In the delegation that traveled to face the first Grand Slam of the year there were

two Argentines

: Guido Pella and Juan Ignacio Londero.

Organizers of the Australian Open confirmed the episode on their social networks.

"There were 79 people on the plane, including 67 passengers, of which 24 are tennis players," they said in a statement released this Saturday.

#AusOpen update ... pic.twitter.com/p6IAXLz5zk

- #AusOpen (@AustralianOpen) January 16, 2021

The two positives will bring

unthinkable consequences

to all the members of the flight in preparation for the first Grand Slam of the year, which will start on February 8.

"All the passengers are already

in quarantine

in hotel rooms and the two who tested positive were transferred to a health center," they said.

And they remarked: "The 24 tennis players who were on the flight will

not be able to leave their rooms

for the next 14 days and until they are cleared by the doctors. They will not be able to train."

Thus, three weeks before the start of the tournament, only stationary

bicycles

installed in the rooms where they will be confined will be available.

The rest will depend on the ingenuity of the tennis players.

For example, Londero shared on Instagram a video in which he is seen standing on a chair, doing bib work with elastic bands attached to the door of the room.

"Quarantine" was the word with which he qualified the images released in a

story

.

Juan Ignacio Londero, one of the tennis players who was traveling on the incident plane to Australia.

Photo EFE

Among the members of the flight were Belarusian and former world number one Victoria Azarenka, American Sloane Stephens and Japanese Kei Nishikori, as well as Pella and Londero.

On the same flight was the American Tennys Sandgren, who clarified this Friday that his results were positive for Covid-19 because he contracted the virus in November.

"Although it is not a case of transmission risk, people who have recovered can present certain viral fragments for a time and that is why it can trigger another positive result," explained a spokesman for the quarantine program led to out in the state of Victoria.

The Australian Open had already suffered the consequences of the coronavirus pandemic.

It was scheduled to take place between January 15 and 31.

However, last November the start was postponed until January 8.

The tournament will end on February 21.

Last year the Grand Slam had gone through some shocks, due to the forest fires that affected all of Australia.

The smoke and polluted air altered some training days, but ultimately did not affect the usual development of the main draw of the contest.

With information from EFE

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