Novak Djokovic engaged in the search for a treatment against Covid-19? Recently expelled from Australia after a long saga around his vaccination status, the Serb is the co-founder and majority shareholder of a biotech who is working on a treatment for Covid-19, said Wednesday, January 19 the director of the Danish company.
“He is one of the founders of my company, created in June 2020“, said Ivan Loncarevic, head of QuantBioRes. The biotech’s articles of association, available from the Danish company register, show that the world number one tennis player and his wife Jelena Djokovic together have 80% of QuantBioRes which employs around twenty people in Denmark, Slovenia, Australia and the United Kingdom.
“Our goal is to develop a new technology to combat viruses and resistant bacteria and we decided to use Covid as a showcase,” he explained. “If we succeed with Covid-19, we will succeed with all the other viruses,” he added. The company plans to launch clinical trials in Great Britain in the summer, said Ivan Loncarevic.
The Serbian star, not vaccinated, had received an exemption to come to Melbourne to play the Australian Open despite the obligation to be doubly vaccinated to enter Australian territory. After a legal fight, he was finally deported on Sunday. Contacted by AFP, Novak Djokovic’s spokesman declined to comment on his participation in the Danish company.
