Serbian tennis star Novak Djokovic, the world number one,
has expressed his opposition to submitting a compulsory
vaccine against the emerging coronavirus before the game
can resume.
Djokovic’s words came during a video call with Serb athletes
through his Facebook account on Easter, according to the
Eastern Calendar. “We have to travel, so I think the number
one challenge is mobility,” he said.
Djokovic was speaking from Spain, where he was forced to stay
with his family due to quarantine after the outbreak of the new
Coronavirus.
“I am in a state of uncertainty. How can travel be handled?
I am not with vaccines,” added the star, who won the Australian
Open, the first Grand Slam four, at the start of the current world.
He continued: “I do not like anyone to force me to have a
vaccine to travel. I have to decide in this regard.
At the moment I am opposed to that, I do not know whether
it will change,” before he clarified, “but about which vaccine
we talk as long as it is not present at the moment? ”
And the Serbian considered that the competitions will not
resume their activities before September or October,
“although tennis activity is officially suspended until
the middle of next July at least.”
He explained: “The season will officially resume when everyone
becomes 100 percent sure of the public’s ability to come,
and there are no risks and that people have become resistant
to the virus, and this requires time.”
He concluded by saying that, until the resumption of activity,
sessions may be required that require travel to only one country
or region.
