MELBOURNE—Nearly 500 Australian Open players and staff who stayed at a quarantine hotel where a worker contracted COVID-19 have tested negative for the coronavirus, with 12 awaiting results, tournament director Craig Tiley said on Friday.
Tiley told Australian radio that 495 people among the Australian Open cohort of 507 who stayed at the Grand Hyatt in Melbourne had been cleared.
“So far everyone is negative,” Tiley told 3AW.
“We’ve got a few pending. The pending ones are just a result of them being tested later last night.
“So far that’s positive and hopefully in the next few hours, we get the positive outcome that they are all are negative.”
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