The 'cage' of worms where Djokovic will pass the Australian bolt

• Controversy Djokovic appeals the cancellation of his visa and Australia agrees to delay his deportation until Monday

Melbourne

. The second largest city in

. The city that is

. The city that was filled with

after the

, which is always on the lists of the most livable cities on the planet, which regularly fills the pages of the

with its street art , which hosted the

(1956) and which is the venue for a

tennis

and a

.

Melbourne.

The city that confines

for 10 cases of coronavirus.

It happened last September.

It was not the first time.

Melbourne has closed its doors throughout the pandemic up to

in periods of two or three weeks each time a few dozen infections appeared daily.

One of its first strict closings was in

.

Then, the authorities attributed the new upturn in cases to the failure to comply with the restriction measures in the established quarantine centers, mostly hotels, for travelers with residence in the city who arrived from other countries.

There was a great scandal that jumped because in one of those hotels the guards had had

who came to the country and who had to be locked in a room serving the two weeks of quarantine that the protocol dictated.

Some of them tested positive, infected the guards and they spread the virus throughout the community.

The Park Hotel, the 'cage'

The

that was under police investigation for that scandal, the

, was later dubbed the "

" by the local press. In December 2020, it came into focus again for becoming a controversial reception center - or rather a detention center - for refugees who had requested asylum from the Australian government and who had to be quarantined.

The hotel has been at the center of several protests in recent months against the

. There were

of a place that had already been an incubator for the virus. In October, a Covid outbreak broke out in which more than 20 people tested positive. There have also been complaints because in the food they gave, often rotten as some photos published by the refugees showed, there were even worms.

In that "cage" of worms

is now locked the number 1 of tennis,

, who landed in the country with a medical exemption from vaccination requirements, approved by the

and officials of the

, but that did not convince the federal border agents of Victoria, the state where Melbourne is located, who were the ones who had the last word.

Authorities have ordered Djokovic to

, when a court will rule on whether he is allowed to stay in the city to participate in the Australian Open or whether he will be deported.

Angry citizen

There has been no exception. In the country that has rigorously followed a strategy of closed borders and short but effective confinements during almost the entire pandemic, Djokovic did not pass the cut and

for not meeting the entry requirements because he was not vaccinated.

Public

probably had a lot to do with the authorities' retreat from the tennis player's case.

The exemption had sparked outrage in a country that adhered to strict strict rules to prevent the spread of the coronavirus and has maintained one of the lowest Covid death rates in the world.

The citizens, who endured lengthy confinements and for months faced strict limits on leaving or returning to Australia,

.

Australia, covid zero strategy

Australia (

, 609,000 infections and 2,301 deaths) has spent almost the entire pandemic following the Covid zero strategy. It did not matter how many positive cases there were. If a handful of new infections appeared that threatened to erase the progress made, old

were resumed . Better to lock up half the population and blockade entire cities for a few days than to wait for the outbreaks to get worse.

That was the policy until the

erased the purpose that it was possible to completely eradicate the coronavirus. At the end of last September, Australian Prime Minister

said that

to ease the economic burden. "It is absurd to continue like this. The confinements are not a sustainable way of living in this country," he said.

As

increased , the borders between states were opened and many of the restrictions were lifted. In early November, controls at international borders were eased, leaving some emotional scenes at airports as many families were able to get together for the first time since the pandemic began.

Starting in December, foreign workers and visa students were able to begin entering a country that was working to establish a "

" with neighboring countries such as

.

At the national level,

.

77.2% of the

.

But no one can enter the country without being vaccinated or with a justifiable medical exception.

Djokovic didn't have it.

According to the criteria of The Trust Project

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