Queensland will impose a 14-day quarantine period for all sports teams who play against a Victorian team in Queensland, play in Victoria, or play another team that has recently been in Victoria.
The revelations come after 75 new cases of COVID-19 were recorded in Victoria overnight. Richmond and West Coast's Thursday night game has been postponed.
Melbourne, Brisbane, Gold Coast and Carlton are the teams set to be impacted by this across the next fortnight, following the most recent fixture release.
Channel 7's reporter Ryan Daniels covered the breaking news on SEN this morning.
โI was told late last week from the Queensland government that they were monitoring the situation, but at that stage nothing had changed. Now obviously over the course of the weekend things have escalated a little,โ Daniels said.
โThatโs led to basically no Victorian teams will be coming into this state for the time being.
โItโs shifted everything with the AFL fixture. A lot of the hub teams have played each other already. Weโre running out of games played.
โRichmond were supposed to come up here and play West Coast on Thursday night, that game canโt happen at this stage up here so that game is being shifted.
โWest Coast will now play Sydney on Saturday here on the Gold Coast and Richmond will play Melbourne on Sunday in Victoria.
โThe other game thatโs had to be shifted at this point is Carlton and St Kilda will move to the prime-time Thursday night slot.
โThereโs a lot of issues here. The Suns are flying into Melbourne to play Geelong in Geelong so that needs to be taken into account.
โYou would think that needs to be shifted too in some way. If youโve got a team that isnโt allowed to fly in, how can the Suns come back without having to quarantine in some way.
โItโs my understanding at this stage that the Sydney teams will be heavily relied upon to join the hub at this stage or fly in and fly out from Queensland, theyโre okay to do that.
โObviously GWS versus Fremantle is the most likely for next week, but thatโs not confirmed just yet.โ
Daniels adds that the current plan for Geelong and Collingwood to quarantine in Western Australia has not yet changed.
โIt is (going to go ahead). The stance from WA is that the quarantine the Cats and the Magpies are going to do when they come into WA is a hard quarantine. Itโs very different to whatโs happening up here in the hub where players can come and go,โ he said.
โItโs a much harder quarantine that can catch any cases in there.โ
