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The Australian Open showed how reluctant Novak Djokovic is to covid vaccines-11. Now, a few days after the Serbian tennis player was deported from that country for not complying with the sanitary regulations for his entry, it became known that he is owner together with his wife of 80% from the actions of the Danish biotechnology firm QuantBioRes, created in the middle of 2020 and that seeks a cure against the disease caused by the coronavirus.
“He is one of the founders of my company, which was founded in June 2020”, the general manager of QuantBioRes, Ivan Loncarevic, told the AFP agency on Wednesday.
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According to information from Registration s public of Denmark, the number one in world tennis has the 40, 8% of the shares and his wife, Jelena Ristic the 39,two%.
The company is developing a product that inhibits the infection of the coronavirus in thes cells human, Loncarevic explained to the Reuters agency.
“Our goal is to develop a new technology to combat resistant viruses and bacteria and we decided to use covid as a showcase “, said the executive.
He stressed that the treatment they are working on has nothing to do with vaccines .
“If we are successful with covid, we will be successful with other viruses”, he added.
QuantBioRes plans to start cl trialsOnly in the UK next summer.
Loncarevic told the Danish newspaper BT how he got to the Serbian tennis player.
“When I started working on this, I defined the project, made a businesses, I explained who was going to participate and what it cost, and I made an official document that I sent to different people who I thought might be interested”, he explained.
The executive did not want to reveal the amount of the investment in the company.
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QuantBioRes has some researchers in Denmark, Australia and Slovenia, according to Loncarevic.
Until now, Djokovic has not commented on this undertaking.
Deported from Australia
The tennis player of 11 years old was deported from Australia on Sunday after a court in that country confirmed the cancellation of his visa.
Djokovic, who has not wanted to get vaccinated against covid, he had received a medical exemption to enter Australia from two independent health panels, one from Tennis Australia and the other from the Victorian state government.
The athlete alleged that he had tested positive for coronavirus in the middle of the December and that he had overcome the disease.
However, the Australian Border Force detained the 20 times Grand Slam winner at entry to the country on January 5 for not complying with the federal coronavirus requirements and his visa was revoked, although a judge later allowed him to stay.
A few days later, the Australian Immigration Minister canceled his visa again on the grounds of “health and law enforcement reasons being in the public interest”.
The appeal filed by the athlete did not prevent him from being deported.
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