Australia wants Kanye West fully vaccinated before any concert tour

MELBOURNE (Reuters) – Hip-hop artist Kanye West should be absolutely vaccinated if he needs to play concert events in Australia, Prime Minister Scott Morrison stated on Saturday, after media stated 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 had been dashed when a court docket upheld the federal government’s determination to cancel his visa over COVID-19 guidelines and his unvaccinated standing.

“The foundations are you need to be absolutely vaccinated,” Morrison informed a information convention.

“They apply to all people, as individuals have seen most just lately. It doesn’t matter who you’re, they’re the principles. Comply with the principles – you possibly can come. You don’t comply with the principles, you possibly can’t.”

Morrison’s remarks adopted a report on Friday within the Sydney Morning Herald newspaper, citing business sources, that stated 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 obtainable for remark.

The vaccination standing of West, a 2020 U.S. presidential candidate, is unknown.

In a 2021 interview on social media he stated 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 in opposition to COVID-19, has been battling an explosive wave of infections up to now month pushed by the fast-spreading Omicron variant, with about 2 million circumstances recorded.

Till then, it had simply 400,000 circumstances because the pandemic first hit almost two years in the past.

On Saturday, 97 individuals died, after Friday’s pandemic document of 98 deaths. Well being officers in a number of states stated, nonetheless, that hospital admissions had been both plateauing or exhibiting indicators of a decline.

(Reporting by Lidia Kelly; Enhancing by Clarence Fernandez)