The professor of biostatistics and epidemiology at the University of South Australia, Adrian Esterman, said in statements collected by The Age newspaper that he expected more positive among the nearly 1,200 passengers who have arrived since last Thursday for the Open.
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“Sometimes if you have just been infected, the viral load is not great enough to be detected by a PCR test right away. With infection rates so high in some of the countries these players and their environment come from, I wouldn’t be surprised if we find new cases in the next few days. In fact, it seems very likely to me, ”he said.
To date, at least 72 players have been forced to be confined to their official hotel rooms in Melbourne, without the possibility of leaving for five hours to train, for having traveled in three charter planes with nine cases of COVID-19, which it has caused discontent among several of them.
The Australian authorities today denied the request of some players to relax from the quarantine measures of tennis players participating in the Australian Open, which is held from 8 to 21 February next.
“People are free to put forward a list of demands, but the answer is no,” Victoria’s head of government Daniel Andrews said at a news conference in Melbourne in which he stressed that the sanitary measures imposed around to the Australian Open “were clearly exposed in advance.”
Victoria, which was the epicenter of the second wave of COVID-19 in Australia after failures in the quarantines of travelers in Melbourne hotels, reported its 12th day without local infections on Monday.
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One of the complaints that has gone viral was that of Yulia Putintseva, who published last Saturday night a video of a mouse inside his room where he is quarantined, as well as training, while the Uruguayan Pablo Cuevas is dedicated to put pictures of him “surfing” on your mattress ..
“Here I am going to spend my 14 days of quarantine alone,” said on Instagram, when he showed his room in a video the Spanish Carlos Alcaraz Garfia, who along with his compatriot Paula Badosa or the Mexican Santiago González is part of the group of 72 athletes under confinement strict.
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