Federal officials wrote a letter to the Daily in November saying a positive test for the virus in the past six months would not be enough to automatically enter a country without a vaccine. But in a leaked letter to Australian news agencies, Tennis Australia, an advisor to the Australian federal health official, told Australia that the state of Victoria, where the match takes place, was responsible for evaluating the exemptions.

On 2 December, Victoria’s Chief Health Officer Brett Sutton wrote to Dennis Australia: “Any person who has a history of latest COVID-19 infection (defined as within 6 months) and who can provide sufficient evidence of this medical history , she is exempted from isolation duties on arrival in Victoria from abroad.

Five days later, Tennis sent a message to the Australian players.

Djokovic landed at Melbourne’s Tullamarine Airport at around 11.30 pm on Wednesday. After a 10-hour siege at the airport, border officials asked him to leave the country. She was locked in a room overnight due to questions about the validity of her visa and the evidence supporting her medical exemption.

His team had filed a lawsuit against this decision on Thursday. A judge said Djokovic could stay at the hotel where the refugees were staying until at least Monday while his lawyers await a hearing.

By then the decision had become political. Australian leaders have a long history of winning elections with tough talks on border enforcement, and Morrison has followed a predictable script, despite the country’s crackdown on asylum seekers in overseas detention centres.

Faced with a difficult election campaign as the economy began to weaken due to the Omiron explosion and lack of testing capabilities, he decided to revoke Djokovic’s visa, trying to use it as an obvious platform. The matter of law and order.

,rule rules“Our government has a strong defense of our borders and I don’t think anyone has any doubts about it,” he said.