Melbourne COVID outbreak sends a chill through Australian leagues

Melbourne: An outbreak of COVID-19 in Melbourne has sent a chill through Australia's sports leagues, with an entire Australian Rules football club forced into isolation and two basketball teams relocating to a northern state.

Australia's second largest city reinstated COVID-19 restrictions on Tuesday as authorities reported five new cases of COVID-19, adding to four reported on Monday. Players and staff at Australian Football League side Western Bulldogs were isolating until they return negative COVID-19 tests, the team said, after one of the club's staff went to a shopping centre deemed an exposure site by authorities.