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Djordje, Novak Djokovic

's brother ,

ended the family press conference on Monday in Belgrade when a journalist asked him about the tennis player's movements in the days after testing positive for Covid-19.

- Is it true that it was positive on December 16?

- Yes, that's all in the legal documents.

- Did you appear at a public event on December 17 while you were infected?

- The press conference is over.

Djokovic landed in Australia on Wednesday January 5 with a medical exemption to the vaccine because he had tested

positive in a PCR on December 16.

That same day, he attended an event in Belgrade where he received a stamp with his image.

A day later, he was photographed at a ceremony with Serbian tennis juniors in which he was not wearing a mask.

On the 18th, she participated in a photo shoot.

Serbian health regulations dictate that a person must

isolate himself at home for 14 days if he becomes infected.

Under the law of his country, Djokovic, although according to his lawyers tested negative in a PCR on December 22, should have ended the quarantine on New Year's Eve.

The first days of January, before catching a plane to Melbourne,

the tennis player was training in Marbella.

At the time, it was already rumored whether the Serbian champion could travel to participate in the Australian Open because he had not yet confirmed if he had been vaccinated. In addition, he had not been that week with the team that represented his country at the ATP Cup in Sydney.

Djokovic left his mansion in the luxury resort of Sierra Blanca and arrived in Melbourne with a medical exemption provided by the medical director of Tennis Australia and the state of Victoria. The soap opera that was unleashed later everyone knows him: arrested at the airport for landing without being vaccinated, locked in a hotel converted into a detention center for refugees, and released after a judge reversed the decision of the authorities border authorities to cancel the tennis player's visa because the agents did not grant him procedural fairness by not giving him enough time to speak with his attorneys and demonstrate that he had a valid exemption.

This Tuesday morning, Australia woke up in suspense in case the Minister of Immigration,

Alex Hawke,

executed his exceptional power to cancel the tennis player's visa again or gave the final victory to the Serbian in his match against the Australian Government, allowing him to participate in the Open. At this time there is no news on Hawke's decision. But several Australian media, such as

The Age,

do collect a new investigation by the authorities because

Djokovic would have lied on his entry forms to the country.

The tennis player stated that he had not left his Belgrade residence for 14 days prior to his arrival in Australia on January 5.

You checked that box in the protocol question that appears on all entry forms to the Pacific country.

The problem is that

it was not true

because the Serbian was in training in Marbella before leaving for Melbourne.

Although the tennis player, during his interrogation with the airport agents, said that it had been Tennis Australia, the governing body of the sport in the country, who had completed his travel declaration.

A mistake in filling in a paper that state officials can now grab to turn the tennis player's victory around after the verdict in his favor on Monday.

"All travelers arriving in Australia are asked if they have traveled or will travel in the 14 days prior to their flight to Australia. They are also warned that giving false or misleading information is a serious offense, and may be subject to a civil sanction, with the

maximum penalty of 12 months in prison ",

details the newspaper

The Age.

The Djokovic case, after being released and posting a photo on Twitter training at a Melbourne track ("I am pleased and grateful that the judge revoked the cancellation of my visa. Despite everything that has happened, I want to stay and try to compete, "he wrote), he continued with a call between the Serbian Prime Minister, Ana Brnabic, with her Australian counterpart, Scott Morrison, whom many in his country remember his famous words defending the cancellation of the tennis player's visa:

" Rules are rules, and no one is above them,

especially when it comes to our borders. "

Djokovic, despite not being vaccinated as the rules dictate, crossed the borders and will now play the Australian Open unless the immigration minister says otherwise.

The Serbian premier called Morrison to ask, according to Serbian media, that Djokovic be treated "fairly and that all his rights be respected."

Morrison, to calm the diplomatic crisis opened with Serbia in recent days, agreed to Brnabic's request, also adding that both governments will remain in direct contact these days.

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