Serbian tennis star Novak Djokovic stressed that if it is
mandatory to take an anti-Corona vaccination for the tennis
players to return to the World Championships, he will
not take it.
Djokovic, the world number one, said during a live conversation
on Facebook that he would not “be forced by anyone to take a
vaccine so that he can travel.”
He continued: “Suppose that the season will resume in July,
August or September, although this is unlikely, I understand
that the vaccine will be a binding condition after we leave a
strict quarantine, and not from a vaccine yet.”
Earlier, the global star and his wife, Yelena, who had two
children spoke of their refusal to take any vaccines.
The prominent Serbian virologist, Predrag Kon, a member of the
Serbian team fighting the COVID-19 outbreak responded to
Djokovic on Facebook saying that he should not make such
anti-vaccine statements, because of his massive public impact
in his country.
“As one of Djokovic’s biggest admirers,” Kun wrote, “I would
like to have a chance to explain to him the importance of
immunology in public health. Now it’s too late, he’s embraced
wrong beliefs.”
Djokovic won the Australian Open in January to clinch his
seventeenth major title.
