No-vax stars face isolation in Oz

VACCINE-HESITANT players like Novak Djokovic and Daniil Medvedev face a minimum two weeks in solitary hotel confinement if they want to play in January’s Australian Open without being jabbed. The increasingly hardline stance by Melbourne’s local government will, by contrast, see vaccinated players have complete freedom on arrival providing they take regular tests. It remains possible that the unvaccinated might not even be allowed in the country at all, although that is a matter for the national authorities in Canberra. ‘All the people watching the tennis, they are going to be are double vaxxed. All the people who work there are going to be double vaxxed,’ said Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews. ‘Stands to reason that if you want to get into the country to be part of the tournament, then you should be doubled vaxxed as well.’ Plans to stage the qualifying event in the Middle East around Christmas have been abandoned and it will revert to Melbourne Park.