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The head of Victoria s coronavirus quarantine authority says it will have zero tolerance for breaches from those connected to the Australian Open, as some tennis players claim they weren t told about strict quarantine rules.
A member of the broadcast team travelling from Los Angeles was on Sunday announced as a fourth person to test positive to COVID-19 from Australian Open charter flights.
All passengers from two of the flights into Victoria, one from Los Angeles and the other from Abu Dhabi, have been placed into mandatory 14-day quarantine after positive cases onboard.
They include 47 players who will be confined to their hotel rooms and unable to train for two weeks leading up to the tournament. The coach of 2019 US Open champion Bianca Andreescu, Sylvain Bruneau, confirmed he was one of the four positive COVID-19 caases.
The man who arrived from America had permission to travel to Melbourne under the exemption scheme to see a family member in palliative care. He had received a negative test at Sydney airport before flying to Tullamarine, but still should have gone directly into hotel quarantine, which was at the time taking travellers with exemptions and Melbourne people unable to quarantine at home.
However, he was not greeted at the airport by a government official and taken to a hotel. A state government spokeswoman has confirmed that officials did not have his flight details, so they were unaware of his arrival.