(ANSA) - MELBOURNE, 10 JAN - Tennis star NovakDjokovic wins his legal battle, an Australian judge orders his release. In particular, the court ruled that Djokovic can be released after the judge found unreasonableness in the way the border officer made the decision to cancel the tennis player's visa, whose supporters around the world cheered A government lawyer nevertheless did to know that Australia can still order Djokovic's expulsion: immigration minister Alex Hawke has a few hours after reading the decision of the Melbourne court to let people know if he intends to use his powers and in any case cancel the permission to enter the country of the Serbian champion.
Sources from the Australian government and the Open organization, quoted by the newspapers The Age and Sydney Morning Herald, say that the Serbian tennis player, number one in the world, has not been arrested.
Djokovic had told the border authorities upon entering Australia that he was not vaccinated and that he had had Covid twice, in June 2020 and last December 16, which was then denied on December 22. The Guardian reports this, citing documents that emerged from the hearing today in a Melbourne court at the conclusion of which Judge Anthony Kelly decided to evoke the cancellation of the visa.
"I have had Covid twice. I had Covid in June 2020 and I had Covid recently - I tested positive for PCR - on December 16, 2021", answered Djokovic to specific questions, according to the transcript of the interview with Australian officials at the frontier, published by the Guardian.
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