"Djokovic applied for a medical exemption which was granted following a rigorous review process involving two separate independent panels of medical experts.
"One of those was the Independent Medical Exemption Review Panel appointed by the Victorian Department of Health. They assessed all applications to see if they met the Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation guidelines."
Djokovic has not revealed his vaccination status, but he had expressed doubt about whether he could play in the 2022 Australian Open because of the requirements."
https://bleacherreport.com/articles/10022833-novak-djokovic-receives-covid-19-vaccine-medical-exemption-from-australian-open
I told my friends who follow tennis that there was going to be some HUGE blow back for him being given a non-vaxx medical exemption, especially since he has expressed doubt/fear about vaccines/certain kinds of anykind in the past that he would not put into his body. Now, he does have horrible allergies to Gluten which is why he became a Vegan years ago because Gluten was making him sick physically, but Gluten allergies won't cut it as to why he was given a non-vaxx medical exemption to enter Australia, especially since Oz has again gone into extremely tight lock-down mode, unless you can show that you've been 2 times vaxxed and boosted or will soon get your booster shot.
ALL of the rest of us have had to suffer from living through Covid and now Omicron, and Nole felt that since he
had covid, his body building up antibodies associated with Covid would work for him. Nole, those anti-bodies you built up lessen over 6 months, so no you don't get a medical exemption unless you
REALLY had an underlying medical problem preventing you from taking the vaccine that many of us have taken and been boosted to boot.
I have a friend who has scarred lungs/& is in her mid-60's, and her doctor
strongly advised her to NOT get vaccinated. She also had heart surgery as a teen who was born with a hole in her heart, so she's been in
DEEP & socially distancing since the covid vaccine was rolled out.
Nole literally thought he could waltz into Aussie Land sans vaccine shots and with a sketchy medical exemption, while the whole country was suffering from and living through Covid. The Aussie citizens I saw interviewed on Sky News television were
BOILING hot over him getting a medical non-vaxx exemption.
I'm a Nole fan, but
really Nole