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Australia ends the COVID entry regime and grants Djokovic a new visa
Key takeaways
- The episode exposed a gap between the Australian Open medical-exemption process and Australia’s federal border-entry rules during the pandemic.
- It became a high-profile test of how broad immigration powers could be used when public health policy, politics, and celebrity status collided.
- Australia later removed the COVID entry restrictions and granted Djokovic a new visa, showing that the deportation was tied to a specific pandemic policy moment rather than a permanent exclusion from competition.
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