Good morning! It’s Justine Landis-Hanley right here, again on the weblog for 2022. Let’s dive straight in.
Novak Djokovic’s visa cancellation battle continues. The tennis star is detained in an immigration resort in Melbourne whereas he waits to attraction his visa cancellation at a high-stakes federal circuit court docket listening to on Monday.
In a court docket submission, Djokovic’s legal professionals claimed that he had been suggested by dwelling affairs his journey declaration met the necessities for “quarantine-free arrival”. They claimed that Tennis Australia granted him a medical exemption to play on the Australian Open regardless of not being vaccinated towards Covid-19, on the grounds that he examined optimistic for the virus in mid-December.
The federal authorities is predicted to file its response to Djokovic’s submission as we speak.
However the tennis star is now facing fresh criticism after pictures on social media confirmed he appeared at public occasions after his optimistic Covid take a look at.
In the meantime, Pparts of Queensland’s south-east are experiencing main flooding following heavy rain. A 14-year-old woman is lacking close to Gympie and a 22-year-old Sunshine Coast man was discovered lifeless yesterday.
Covid-19 instances are additionally persevering with to rise throughout the nation.
NSW recorded 45,098 instances yesterday from PCR checks, acknowledging that the true quantity was probably a lot bigger. Victoria reported 51,356 instances, which included outcomes from fast antigen checks logged on-line over the previous six days.
Queensland reported 11,174 instances and introduced the suspension of non-urgent elective surgical procedure for eight weeks.