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Tennis players had been ‘feeding’ mouse, says Neville
By David Estcourt
Yulia Putintseva took to social media to complain about hotel quarantine conditions.CREDIT:TWITTER
Tennis stars complaining about a mouse in their quarantine hotel room had been feeding the rodent, says Police Minister Lisa Neville.
Tennis star Yulia Putintseva had taken to social media to complain this week about the lack of fresh air in hard lockdown, and posting videos of mice in the quarantine hotel.
Ms Neville did not name the tennis star specifically but indicated the government suspects some people may have been feeding the mouse.
"As I understand there may have been some feeding going on," Ms Neville said.
"We did firstly move the particular tennis player the other day we've had at the hotel."
Ms Neville said players need to take responsibility to maintain cleanliness in their hotel rooms if they are under hard lockdown.
"Every tennis player needs to clean their own room and change their own beds if they want that," Ms Neville said.
"We will keep doing pest control if we need to but hopefully that pest control work that was done this week will have fixed the problem."
Ms Neville added that many tennis stars had thanked the Victorian government for holding the Australian Open, and that the government was happy to have the players in Melbourne for the Grand Slam.
"We love having them here," Ms Neville said.
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