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The Serbian tennis player participated in a ceremony with young promises from his country on December 17
Controversy continues to surround the world number one tennis player. Serbian Novak Djokovic attended a ceremony with young players without a mask in Belgrade one day following testing positive for covid-19 on December 16, according to a publication of the local tennis federation. In a statement issued on December 17, the Belgrade tennis federation announced on his Facebook page that “the best tennis player on the planet” and “holder of 20 Grand Slam titles” handed out the cups and diplomas to the young Serbs laureates in the 2021 season.
“Only the award-winning children attended the award ceremony at the Novak Tennis Center in Dorcol (Belgrade), due to the sanitary measures related to coronavirus pandemic“The statement read. The publication includes several photos of Djokovic posing with federation officials and some twenty teenagers. None of them wears a protective mask.
On the eve of that ceremony with the young Serbian promises, when according to his lawyers he tested positive, Djokovic participated in another public act: presenting a stamp with your image. The tennis player posted a photo of the event on Instagram. These latest reports add to the controversy experienced by the player when he was regarding to participate in the Australian Open, a Djokovic who has made public his opposition to vaccines.
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The tennis player traveled to Melbourne in the middle of last week following having obtained a medical exemption to enter Australia, an exemption that would have been granted to him for having overcome the covid that he contracted in December, according to his lawyers. But your visa was canceled upon arrival at the airport and since then it has been held in a hotel that acts as migrant detention center in Melbourne, known for its poor conditions. The Serb will have to wait there at least until Monday, when the Australian courts will begin to address his case.
Your case has awakened a huge outrage in Australia, one of the countries that has applied the most restrictive measures to try to contain the spread of the pandemic. Last Wednesday, the Australian border authorities justified the cancellation of his visa stating that Djokovic “did not present the appropriate tests” to access Melbourne airport, since according to those same sources, having overcome the covid is not a valid reason to enter the country without being vaccinated.
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