Djokovic and his wife test negative for coronavirus
BELGRADE: Novak Djokovic and his wife have tested negative for the coronavirus, his media team said on Thursday, 10 days after announcing they had contracted the disease.
The men’s World No.1 had tested positive for the virus after playing in the Adria Tour exhibition series, which he organised in Serbia and Croatia amid the pandemic. No social distancing was observed at the matches in Belgrade and Zadar. “Djokovic and his wife Jelena are negative for COVID-19. That was shown by the results of the PCR tests which both had in Belgrade,” his media team said in a statement.
Both Djokovic and his wife had no symptoms and were in self-isolation in the Serbian capital since testing positive, the statement added. The news comes amid a new spike of coronavirus cases in Serbia and the reintroduction of some restrictive measures, such as compulsory wearing of masks and social distancing.
Djokovic was the fourth player to come down with the deadly virus after participating in the Adria Tour matches in Belgrade and Zadar. The others were Grigor Dimitrov, Borna Coric and Viktor Troicki.
World No.1 Novak Djokovic had tested positive for the virus after playing in the Adria Tour, which he organised in Serbia and Croatia amid the pandemic. Grigor Dimitrov, Borna Coric and Viktor Troicki were also affected
Serbian ace donates 40,000 euros
Novak Djokovic donated more than 40,000 euros ($45,000) to a Serbian town badly affected by the pandemic, local media reported on Wednesday.
The 33-year-old Djokovic donated the money to Novi Pazar, in Serbia’s southwest, to help it fight a growing outbreak of the disease, the SportKlub TV sports channel reported. The town declared a state of emergency in late June due to the spread of the respiratory disease.