Serbian tennis player Novak Djokovic admitted yesterday that a “human error” had been made in his statement to enter Australia and that he had appeared in an interview despite knowing that he was suffering from covid-19. At the same time, the Australian government is continuing to study his possible deportation.
The current number one in the world answered in a statement on social media what he defined as “continuous misinformation” and confessed that he was interviewed by a French media on December 18, a day after learning which was coronavirus positive. He is now in Australia with the intention of playing and winning what would become the 21st Grand Slam of his career thus surpassing Roger Federer and Rafa Nadal. He landed there on January 5th. He did so with a medical exemption for not getting vaccinated, but customs officers denied him a visa and he was detained in a Melbourne hotel while his lawyers appealed to an Australian court, which ordered release on Monday.
In the statement, he stated that his agent had inadvertently made a “human error” in filling in the box on the trips that the athlete had made in the 14 days scheduled for his arrival in the oceanic country, in not to declare a trip between Spain and Serbia. His deportation could still be possible before the start of the Australian Open, which will be held from 17 to 30 January.
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