Australian Open Bans Spectators, Due to Coronavirus Lockdown.
30,000 fans had been attending Grand Slam tennis matches.
However, the state of Victoria just issued a five-day stay-at-home order, which means the matches will continue without fans.
Australian Open event coordinators say that it will continue on schedule.
19 cases of the highly-contagious U.K. coronavirus variant have been detected in Melbourne.
The lockdown means that Victoria residents may leave their homes only for essential purposes, .
Such as purchasing food or essential family care products.
This is our opportunity — our brief window — to starve the virus of what it wants most.
Movement, Dan Andrews, Victoria Premier, via NPR News.
The most recent lockdown in Victoria is the nation's third major stay-at-home order to be issued
