MELBOURNE: Three new coronavirus cases hit the Australian Open’s troubled build-up on Tuesday as a backlash grew against international tennis players flown in during a raging pandemic.
Two of the new cases were players, state health officials said, taking the total infections to seven since more than 1,000 people arrived in largely coronavirus-free Australia on charter flights last week.
The Victoria state health department said the two players and a third person associated with the tournament — a woman in her 20s, and two men in their 30s — had returned positive results.
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