Djokovic donates €40,000
Tennis World No. 1 Novak Djokovic, who along with his wife Jelena have tested negative, donated more than 40,000 euros to a Serbian town badly affected by the pandemic, local media reported Wednesday.
His media team said Thursday that they have tested negative, 10 days after announcing they had contracted the disease.
For all latest news, follow The Daily Star's Google News channel. The player tested positive for the virus after playing in an exhibition series he organized in Serbia and Croatia amid the pandemic. No social distancing was observed at the matches.
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.
After restricting the first outbreak of COVID-19 in early May, Serbia is now reporting a fresh surge, logging more than 200 cases daily recently compared to around 50 a month ago.