“We look forward to welcoming fans back to the Australian
Open for the next four days and to finishing the event safely and on a high,”
tournament director Craig Tiley said in a statement.
A maximum of 7,477 fans will be allowed at each of the day
and night sessions from Thursday, Tiley said.
The announcement comes ahead of the five-day state-wide
lockdown ending at midnight on Wednesday with state health authorities
expressing confidence the snap restrictions had been enough to contain a
Coronavirus outbreak.
“Last week we had our first real experience of live sport
with fans in the stands and the atmosphere was electric,” said Tiley.
The restrictions were ordered last Friday after a small
cluster of the UK coronavirus variant emerged.
The Australian Open’s Melbourne Park complex had been
operating on the capacity of a restricted ground of 30,000 spectators per day
in the first week of the tournament before the snap lockdown.
The five-day stay-at-home order now appears to have
contained the outbreak, which centred on a hotel near Melbourne airport, to 19
people.
No new cases were reported Wednesday.
AFP
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