According to the news on January 5, local time, 34-year-old Serbian professional tennis player Novak Djokovic will be deported from the country because his visa application was rejected by Australian customs. Djokovic is currently at Melbourne's Taramarin airport, where he arrived on an Emirates flight from Dubai, but was not allowed to enter and was placed in an isolation room guarded by two guards.
This is the picture of Djokovic's coach Goran Ivanisevich and physiotherapist Ulysses Badio posing in an isolation room at the airport. Despite many ups and downs, Djokovic is still the world number one in men's singles, and his purpose in Australia is to participate in the upcoming Australian Open in Victoria.
Djokovic's visa was rejected for simple reasons, as he did not have proof of vaccination, and in the words of Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison, "without proof of vaccination or enough evidence of inability to be vaccinated, then he (Djokovic) had to take the next flight home".
It is reported that Djokovic has been given a certificate of exemption from the new crown vaccine by two independent health groups, known as the "vaccine exemption", but according to the guidelines issued by the Australian Ministry of Health, Djokovic does not seem to meet any of them, such as congenital heart disease, or has just undergone major surgery, or has a serious allergic reaction to the vaccine.
Djokovic's father, Srgjan Djokovic, expressed strong dissatisfaction with the situation in which he was sent to the isolation room, issuing an urgent statement calling on the Australian government to immediately "release" his son, who had been "imprisoned for 5 hours", and even threatened to let fans gather in the streets to protest if he was not allowed to be freed within half an hour.
In the stands of the Australian Open match that started earlier, Djokovic's fans have expressed their support for him, but more Australians are still very dissatisfied with djokovic's exemption from vaccination, and even expressed strong anger, as Australian Deputy Prime Minister James Merino said that "vaccine exemption is not a loophole". Earlier in the day on the 5th, Victoria's acting sports minister Jala Pulford posted on social media confirming that Victoria does not support Djokovic's visa application, "We will not allow Novak Djokovic to participate in the 2022 Australian Open individual visa application", and stressed that "visa approval is a matter for the federal government, and medical exemptions are a matter for doctors".