Novak Djokovic is half relieved. The courts ordered his release from the detention center and overturned the Australian government’s decision to deny him his visa. But the Minister of Immigration does not intend to stop on a defeat.
Will Novak Djokovic take part in the Australian Open? January 5, last, the champion was refused entry on Australian soil upon arrival at Melbourne Airport. The athlete had taken the plane with a medical exemption in his pocket for non-vaccination in order to be able to enter the country. However, the authorities rejected this document, explaining that the exemption had not been justified, and canceled his visa. The beginning of the nightmare for Novak Djokovic, threatened with deportation and placed in a detention center while his situation is in order. His lawyers had indeed filed an appeal against the cancellation of the visa. to justice. They thus justified the player’s vaccination exemption by revealing that he had contracted Covid-19 on December 16, 2021. The start of another scandal since the next day, he had participated in a ceremony without a mask and therefore not respecting not his isolation.
The Australian government is not giving up
This Monday, January 10, Novak Djokovic was finally fixed on his fate duringa live broadcast audience. The most stressful match of a tennis player’s career but which ends in victory. As reported by BFM TV, justice overturned Australian government’s decision to cancel athlete’s visa and a ordered immediate release of the last.
But nothing is definitely over for Novak Djokovic. For the government, even if the player has already contracted Covid-19, this is in no way an argument for an exemption from the vaccine. The Australian government lawyer warned that the Immigration Minister could cancel the player’s visa again and exercise his “personal power of cancellation“ as BFMTV explains. In this case, Novak Djokovic could even be inadmissible to Australia for three years ! With the Australian Open starting on January 17, the star is not immune to any twists and turns.