PARIS (Reuters) – World tennis number one Novak Djokovic will be allowed to play at the Roland Garros tournament this year even if he is not vaccinated against COVID-19, French Sports Minister Roxana said on Friday. Maracineanu.
The Serbian tennis player, whose vaccination status is not known but who has publicly criticized the vaccine obligations against COVID-19, is currently accommodated in a detention center for migrants in Australia after the revocation of his visa intervened on background controversy over a medical exemption granted to him to play at the Australian Open in Melbourne.
“When there is a competition, there are health protocols imposed by the federations in question which are added to the protocols of the country and therefore this is what will allow in France, someone like Djokovic, to be able to enter the territory “, explained Roxana Maracineanu on franceinfo.
“He may not be submitted to the same organization as those who are vaccinated who are part of the same competition because he will not be vaccinated but in any case, he may participate in the competition because the protocol, the” sanitary bubble “, these major sporting events will allow it”, she added.
(Report Richard Lough and Blandine Hénault, edited by Nicolas Delame)
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