{"id":230497,"date":"2021-12-02T09:06:07","date_gmt":"2021-12-02T04:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/?p=230497"},"modified":"2021-12-02T09:06:07","modified_gmt":"2021-12-02T04:06:07","slug":"australias-vaccine-mandate-is-not-to-blackmail-djokovic-ninister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/australias-vaccine-mandate-is-not-to-blackmail-djokovic-ninister\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cAustralia\u2019s vaccine mandate is not to \u2018blackmail\u2019 Djokovic\u201d: Ninister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Melbourne<br \/>\nThe Australian Open\u2019s COVID-19 vaccine mandate is about protecting the community, not about \u201cblackmailing\u201d Novak Djokovic, a state government official said on Wednesday.<br \/>\nOrganisers of the year\u2019s first Grand Slam have said all players would have to be vaccinated to take part, drawing criticism from world number one Djokovic\u2019s father.<br \/>\n\u201cUnder these blackmails and conditions, (Djokovic) probably won\u2019t (play),\u201d Srdjan Djokovic told Serbian media.<br \/>\nVictoria sports minister Martin Pakula said the vaccine mandate applied to all athletes in the southern Australian state, which hosts the Australian Open in Melbourne.<br \/>\n\u201cIf you\u2019re a visiting international tennis player, or a visiting sportsman of any kind, it\u2019s about your responsibility to the community that you are being welcomed into,\u201d Pakula told Australian media.<br \/>\n\u201cAnd that\u2019s why we are asking those international tennis stars to follow the same requirements as Victorians are.<br \/>\n\u201cIt\u2019s not about blackmail; it\u2019s about making sure the Victorian community is protected.<br \/>\n\u201cI want to make it clear that I really hope that Novak Djokovic gets vaccinated and plays in the Australian Open.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Melbourne The Australian Open\u2019s COVID-19 vaccine mandate is about protecting the community, not about \u201cblackmailing\u201d Novak Djokovic, a state government official said on Wednesday. Organisers of the year\u2019s first Grand Slam have said all players would have to be vaccinated to take part, drawing criticism from world number one Djokovic\u2019s father. \u201cUnder these blackmails and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-230497","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-sports"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>\u201cAustralia\u2019s vaccine mandate is not to \u2018blackmail\u2019 Djokovic\u201d: Ninister<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/australias-vaccine-mandate-is-not-to-blackmail-djokovic-ninister\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"\u201cAustralia\u2019s vaccine mandate is not to \u2018blackmail\u2019 Djokovic\u201d: Ninister\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Melbourne The Australian Open\u2019s COVID-19 vaccine mandate is about protecting the community, not about \u201cblackmailing\u201d Novak Djokovic, a state government official said on Wednesday. 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