A researcher from CEU Cardenal Herrera University (CEU UCH) in Valencia published a study in which argues that States have no legitimacy to require mandatory vaccination against COVID-19 as a control measure of its borders and, therefore, the expulsion suffered by tennis player Novak Djokovic in Australia in 2022 was an abuse.
Teacher Leopoldo García Ruiz published the investigation ‘Vaccines, COVID certificates and border control: reflections on the case of Djokovic’ in the international legal publication Chilean Magazine of Law and He asserted that the pandemic has exacerbated the current crisis of the rule of law.
In his analysis, this professor said that the Serbian tennis player should not have been expelled from Australia in the last edition of the Open: “The safety and effectiveness of the COVID-19 vaccines justify their administrationbut not its obligation: the natural immunity acquired by Djokovic should be taken into account,” he said in his explanation.
The CEU UCH professor highlighted in his investigation that the expulsion of the Serbian tennis player was “exemplary”because the Court that authorized it did so because, as a sports star, Djokovic’s presence in Australia “would encourage anti-vaccine actions and stop the vaccination of the country’s youth.”
The Serbian tennis player, who will seek the final of the Australian Open this Friday, was able to enter the country this year after the Australian authorities lifted the entry ban on Djokovic, which, in principle, was until 2025.
Source: La Verdad
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