Australia says Djokovic has not received special treatment for allowing him to play without confirming if he is vaccinated

• Australian Open Upset after the placet granted to Djokovic: "If I were the one not vaccinated, there would have been no exemption"

Australian authorities assured this Wednesday that they did not give special treatment to the world's number one tennis player, the Serbian

who has refused to reveal if he has been vaccinated against covid, by granting him a medical exemption to defend his title in the Australian Open.

"I want to make it absolutely clear, as has been the case all the time, that no one is or will be receiving special treatment for who they are or for what they have achieved professionally," said the acting Minister of Sports of the regional government of Victoria today. ,

at a press conference in Melbourne.

Pulford - who appeared alongside Tennis Australia executive director

admitted that the decision "is something that will cause discomfort to many" residents of Melbourne, the city that accumulates more days in strict isolation during the pandemic, and the rest of this country in which harsh measures were implemented to stop the pandemic.

Earlier, Australian Prime Minister

and other authorities had stated that all tennis players and members of their team participating in the tournament should be vaccinated with the full schedule.

However, government guidelines point to

from entering the country to people who have "a serious medical condition", who cannot be vaccinated because they have contracted covid-19 in the previous six months or have had an adverse reaction to this drug. among other.

Stephen Parnis,

former vice president of the Australian Medical Association, said on Twitter Tuesday that the exemption "sends an egregious message to millions of people seeking to reduce the risk of COVID-19 in Australia to themselves and others.

The doctor added that "no matter how good a tennis player he is. If he refuses to be vaccinated, he should not be allowed entry" to this tournament, which takes place in Melbourne between January 17 and 30.

The Australian Open, which in the last edition

is held amid a crisis in the oceanic country due to the triggering of infections, which went from almost 212,000 accumulated cases on December 1, to over half a million this week.

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