MELBOURNE --
Hip-hop artist Kanye West should be totally vaccinated if he needs to play concert events in Australia, Prime Minister Scott Morrison mentioned on Saturday, after media mentioned the performer deliberate an Australian tour in March.
The warning comes simply two weeks after tennis celebrity Novak Djokovic's hopes for a Grand Slam title have been dashed when a courtroom upheld the federal government's choice to cancel his visa over COVID-19 guidelines and his unvaccinated standing.
"The foundations are it's a must to be totally vaccinated," Morrison instructed a information convention.
"They apply to everyone, as individuals have seen most not too long ago. It would not matter who you might be, they're the foundations. Observe the foundations - you possibly can come. You do not comply with the foundations, you possibly can't."
Morrison's remarks adopted a report on Friday within the Sydney Morning Herald newspaper, citing trade sources, that mentioned West deliberate to play stadium concert events in Australia in March.
Representatives of West, who launched his newest album, "Donda," in July, weren't instantly accessible for remark.
The vaccination standing of West, a 2020 U.S. presidential candidate, is unknown.
In a 2021 interview on social media he mentioned he had acquired one vaccine dose, however in a 2020 interview with enterprise journal Forbes, he had known as getting vaccinated "the mark of the beast."
Australia, one of many nations most closely vaccinated towards COVID-19, has been battling an explosive wave of infections prior to now month pushed by the fast-spreading Omicron variant, with about 2 million instances recorded.
Till then, it had simply 400,000 instances because the pandemic first hit practically two years in the past.
On Saturday, 97 individuals died, after Friday's pandemic report of 98 deaths. Well being officers in a number of states mentioned, nonetheless, that hospital admissions have been both plateauing or displaying indicators of a decline.
Kanye West attends the Kenzo fall-winter 22/23 males's assortment, in Paris, Sunday, Jan. 23, 2022. (AP Photograph/Lewis Joly)
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