Czech tennis participant Renata Voracova left Australia on Saturday, the Czech Foreign Ministry stated, after problems with visas that acquired her swept up in a furore over the dealing with of the nation’s COVID-19 vaccine exemptions.
Voracova joined males’s primary Novak Djokovic in Australian immigration detention on Thursday, regardless of already having been allowed into the nation and enjoying in a match earlier than having her visa cancelled.
While Djokovic has challenged his visa cancellation, Voracova, a 38-year-old doubles specialist, determined to depart, telling Czech information web site idnes.cz she wouldn’t problem due to the time it could take to attend and never prepare forward of the Australian Open later this month.
“(Renata) Voracova left Australia on Saturday based on her own decision to end her participation in the tournament due to complications with her visas,” the Czech ministry stated.
“The decision was not based on her expulsion from the country,” it stated. The ministry added it was ready for a response from Australian authorities to a diplomatic notice despatched on Friday.
Voracova was unvaccinated however had an exemption after changing into sick with COVID-19 earlier than Christmas, across the time she had deliberate to get vaccinated following final season’s finish, she advised idnes.cz.
She had entered the nation and performed in Melbourne earlier this week forward of the Australian Open however was then detained in the identical lodge as Djokovic.
ABC News reported Voracova departed to Dubai.
Djokovic stated in a authorized problem on Saturday to being refused entry to Australia that he had been given medical exemption from vaccination as a result of he had contracted COVID-19 final month. Australia’s authorities has launched a letter exhibiting it wrote to Tennis Australia, the native organising physique, in November saying that prior an infection with COVID-19 was not essentially grounds for exemption in Australia.
