Djokovic doctor addresses ‘risk’ posed by ‘super healthy’ star — RT Sport News

A health care provider who labored intently with Novak Djokovic throughout his rise to the highest of the tennis world rankings says it’s “absurd” that the unvaccinated Serbian is being handled as a menace to public well being in Australia.

Dr Igor Cetojevic, a Bosnian-born Serb who was a part of Djokovic’s touring celebration forward of his first Wimbledon win and rise to the summit of the boys’s rankings a decade in the past, has ridiculed the choice by Australian immigration authorities to revoke the Australian Open high seed’s visa forward of what’s anticipating to a be a last reckoning of a saga this weekend which has gripped the sports activities world.

The world primary has twice had his immigration standing withdrawn, the most recent of which got here from the best stage of the Australian authorities on Friday, leaving Djokovic counting on a last enchantment to find out whether or not he’s legally eligible to hunt a record-breaking twenty first Grand Slam title. 

In response to Cetojevic, the complete episode is little greater than theater. “It’s absurd that any person who has optimum well being is a menace to the well being of the general public,” he mentioned, through AFP. “How can a brilliant wholesome man be a menace for the Australian Open?”

The choice by Immigration Minister Alex Hawke to unilaterally block Djokovic’s keep in Australia was deemed by authorities to be within the public curiosity – but it surely was additionally made within the shadow of an exponential rise in Covid-19 instances linked to the highly-transmissible Omicron variant, and Cetojevic alleges that Djokovic is being focused for his private beliefs.

“It’s all politics – it begins with politics, not anything,” he mentioned.

Some of Cetojevic’s strategies, equivalent to his Chinese language and holistic approaches to healthcare, have been dismissed by his friends, and he additionally finds himself in one thing of a medical minority relating to vaccines – a problem which is on the root of Djokovic’s Australian drama. 

“Positively,” he mentioned when requested if he suspected that Djokovic’s efficiency on the court docket could be hindered by the vaccine.

“Let’s name issues by their proper title. These so-called vaccines are, the truth is, experimental merchandise that haven’t been clinically confirmed. I’m seeing sufferers as of late, abnormal folks who adopted the advice to be injected, who at the moment are going through main well being points.

“The entire concept is to impress the physique’s immune system however we’re all completely different. Some folks have completely different reactions.

“If in case you have the most effective automobile for Formulation One and you set the incorrect petrol inside, what is going to occur?”

The final consensus of the medical neighborhood is that the vaccines are an efficient preventative weapon in opposition to Covid-19, with the World Well being Group stating that they’ve been been strongly examined.

WHO basic director Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus additionally warned this week that the “overwhelming majority” of individuals being admitted to hospital for Covid-19 are unvaccinated.

Cetojevic, although, endorses Djokovic’s stance.

“He respects himself, he’s conscious and a wise particular person and he learns from his errors and likewise from good decisions. Fortunately, assembly me 10 years in the past, his life modified,” he mentioned, refusing to make clear if he had been in touch with the star all through his Australian troubles.

“I’m all the time in contact with good associates… it is dependent upon the time and desires,” he added.