Tuesday, January 11, 2022
Documents raise questions
Was Djokovic’s PCR test falsified?
There are many indications that Novak Djokovic may play the Australian Open. But now there are inconsistencies around his alleged positive PCR test. Have the documents been tampered with? Several clues raise questions – and should bring the tennis star in great need.
Novak Djokovic can move freely again and is already training hard in Melbourne, Australia. As things stand, the tennis star would take part in the Australian Open from next Monday. The reason for this is a positive PCR test from Serbia, which certifies Djokovic a corona infection on December 16, 2021. This allowed the 34-year-old to enter the Australian Open as a convalescent with a special permit and finally to pick up the tennis racket again after a visa fiasco at the airport, including the immigration hotel and court hearing. According to Research by the news magazine “Spiegel” However, there are now inconsistencies with this positive PCR test, which could mean major problems for the Serbs again.
Djokovic’s lawyers put two in the court hearing on Monday Paper test results before. Accordingly, the world number one tested positive on December 16 and then negative again on December 22. The digital test results, which can be viewed by scanning the QR code, raise questions, according to “Spiegel”. The URL with the digital time stamp of the positive test allegedly carried out on December 16 states that the test was only carried out on December 26. In the case of a negative test, the time stamp is again correct.
the IT experts from the Zerforschung groupwho have already dealt with IT security gaps and the construction of test systems several times and have helped the news magazine analyze the digital test results, confirmed the inconsistencies and explained them in detail on Twitter. Accordingly, the test ID of the allegedly positive test (7371999) from December 16. greater than that of the negative test on December 22nd (7320919). The test allegedly carried out earlier was only recorded digitally later.
Code shows first positive, then negative
So did someone enter the test results into the system afterwards? Was Djokovic first tested negative (on December 22nd) and then positive (on December 26th)? Did he even travel to Australia positively? Or maybe there was no infection at all and it was just invented and registered so that the Serb could take part in the Australian Open? The tennis star was photographed several times in the days after he was suspected of being infected with the coronavirus, posing with young tennis players without a distance and without a mask at an award ceremony in Belgrade and even for a photo shoot for the French sports newspaper “L’Équipe”. That suggests Djokovic actually didn’t test positive on those days.
The QR codes raise further questions, because the “Spiegel” published screenshots of the supposedly positive test in its report, the digital version of which reads in English (clicked on Monday at 1:19 p.m. CEST): “Test result negative”. A screenshot just one hour later then suddenly shows the positive result. The well-known tennis journalist Ben Rothenburg posted on Twitter Screenshots with the same dilemma.
The Australian authorities are currently not only checking alleged misrepresentations of the world number one about his whereabouts before entering the country. The PCR test questions should also make Novak Djokovic’s situation more difficult and could put a stop to his tournament participation.