Paula Badosa had to restart her already severe quarantine on Thursday after learning that she had tested positive in the daily check-up at the Grand Hyatt hotel in Melbourne, where he waited patiently and unable to leave the room for the 14 days of mandatory confinement to pass before the start of the competition. On his flight a positive for COVID was detected (that of Bianca Andreescu's coach, Sylvain Brunneau), and All the occupants of the plane were denied the possibility that other tennis players have to go out for five hours a day to train.
Badosa complained that they had not been advised of this norm and told it in AS. Hours later, and faced with some opinions that branded her selfish, the Spanish wrote a brief statement on social networks as an apology, very well received by the Australian media: “Please, do not misunderstand me. Health always comes first and I feel Thankful to be in Australia. Preventive and quarantine measures are essential at this time. I talked about rules that changed overnight, but I understand the sad situation we are living in. Sorry guys. Stay safe. I love Australia. ” .
Please, don't get me wrong. Health will always come first & I feel grateful for being in Australia. Quarantine & preventive measures are pivotal right now. I talked about rules that changed overnight but I understand the sad situation we are living. Sorry guys. Stay safe. I❤️????????
– Paula Badosa (@paulabadosa) January 21, 2021
The fact is that Badosa, who was transferred to another hotel destined for the people involved in the Australian tennis tour who have been infected, will have to extend his confinement for at least ten more days from the moment he stops presenting symptoms of the disease. That is as long as it is a standard strain of coronavirus. This was confirmed on Friday by the head of the Victoria State Department of Health, Brett Sutton: “That is the unfortunate consequence for anyone who becomes a confirmed case: the isolation period begins as soon as the case is confirmed. For the ordinary coronavirus, that period is at least 10 days, so you must be free of symptoms for three and complete those 10 days. “The leader did not want to reveal that with what type of strain he contracted the Badosa disease, but if it were one of the “concerning, including the UK strain as some call it, that isolation period is 14 days.” The authorities have raised the Badosa event as an example that the strict sanitary measures imposed are necessary.
On Friday it turned out that Paula's coach, Javier Martí, also suffers from the coronavirus. Both hope that the tennis player can compete, even in difficult conditions, at the Australian Open from February 8.