Lawyers for Serbian tennis star Novak Djokovic said on Saturday that he contracted COVID-19 last month but was not experiencing symptoms and had written clearance from Australia's immigration department before traveling to the country with a medical exemption from its vaccination rules, ESPN reported.
The No. 1-ranked Djokovic, who remained in immigration detention in Australia after having his visa canceled on arrival Thursday, returned his first positive coronavirus test on December 16, but 14 days later he "had not had a fever or respiratory symptoms of COVID-19 in the last 72 hours," the lawyers said in a court filing.
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