The Australian Tennis Championships adopts the most stringent quarantine in the world

Today, the Australian Open Tennis Organizing Committee revealed the tournament's quarantine program to combat the spread of the emerging coronavirus, which the Australian government has described as the most stringent in the world.

The Australian Open tennis tournament (one of the four Grand Slam tournaments) begins on February 8th and continues until the 21st of the same month, when the tournament will take place three weeks later than usual.

Lisa Neville, Minister of Police and Emergency Services, said that about 1,200 people, including players, officials and supporters of the players in the tournament, will arrive in the city starting next Thursday.

Participants will be quarantined at one of the three hotels and have been warned of stiff penalties, including possible criminal penalties if quarantine rules are violated.

Players will be able to leave their rooms for up to five hours per day, for training or treatment, to reduce the risk of injury.

Players will undergo corona examinations every day while they are at the hotel, and they will be examined if any symptoms appear.

The quarantine rules also stipulate that any person with a positive sample in Corona examinations, or any person who has been in contact, is transferred to a health hotel, and he will not be allowed to participate in the tournament until his sample comes negative.

Neville added, "We expect that any tennis player who arrives here will likely have a positive sample."

And she continued, "Our rules are designed around those possibilities and how to ensure that there is no risk to society in the event there is a positive sample."

"We have set the strongest and most stringent rules in tennis competitions around the world," she concluded.

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