Foreign fans have been kept out of Australian Open this year. (Reuters)Tennis fans wearing masks filtered into Melbourne Park on Monday for the start of the Australian Open, this year’s first Grand Slam event, as the host city recorded one new locally acquired case of the novel coronavirus. The tournament will welcome about half its usual capacity, with crowds limited to 30,000 fans a day, at its sprawling site divided into three distinct zones around the main showcourts named after Australian tennis greats Margaret Court and Rod Laver, and former state leader John Cain. “We can sit together but there are two seats between us and the next people,” Orelli said. Neighbouring New South Wales state was investigating another case in a returned traveller who tested positive after leaving hotel quarantine.

Source: Indian Express February 08, 2021 09:33 UTC