The Australian Open warm-up match was forced to be cancelled on Thursday. About 600 athletes and staff were quarantined.

February 4th, local time, according to the latest news from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, the warm-up match of the Australian Open tennis tournament being held in Melbourne on the 4th has been cancelled.

The reason is that on the evening of the 3rd local time, Victoria Governor Andrews announced at a press conference that a quarantine hotel worker had been diagnosed with COVID-19.

Andrews said that about 500 to 600 athletes and competition staff were quarantined, and said that the quarantined personnel would be tested for the virus as soon as possible to make the game go smoothly.