Kanye West's visa, on the verge of cancellation | Will Donda be canceled?
Kanye West's visa, on the verge of cancellation | Will Donda be canceled? Kanye West | Donda Kanye West is rumoured to be bringing his Donda tour Down Under in the near future Kanye West born June 8, 1977, in Atlanta, Georgia. Kanye West and his mother, Donda West, relocated to Chicago, Illinois, when Kanye West was 3, following his parents’ divorce. Kanye West got his music career start as a producer. Kanye West may be unable to bring his Donda tour Down Under due to Australia's extreme rules on Covid and vaccinations Kanye West may be unable to receive an Australian visa under the same vaccine-related rules that saw tennis legend Novak Djokovic kicked out of the country this month. According to News.com.au, the rapper is rumoured to be bringing his Donda tour Down Under in the near future, but his vaccination status and love of free speech could see him barred from Australia. The 44-year-old only received his first dose of the Covid-19 vaccine, before changing his mind and opting not to get a second dose or a booster shot. 'I travelled to Paris a couple weeks ago, and I had to go through Lisbon because you can go through Lisbon without being vaccinated,' he told the Drink Champs podcast last year. 'I only got one of the shots, so I'm half-ccinated,' he added. Hip-hop artist Kanye West will have to be fully vaccinated if he wants to give concerts in Australia, Scott Morrison said on Saturday, after media said the performer planned an Australian tour in March. Prime Minister Scott Morrison has insisted that celebrities won't be exempt from following the country's strict Covid protocols. The warning comes just two weeks after tennis champion Novak Djokovic’s hopes for an Australian Open title were dashed when a court upheld the government’s decision to cancel his visa over Covid-19 rules and his unvaccinated status. “The rules are you have to be fully vaccinated,” Morrison told a news conference on Saturday. “They apply to everybody, as people have seen most recently. It doesn’t matter who you are, they are the rules. Follow the rules – you can come. You don’t follow the rules, you can’t.” NSW has deadliest day of pandemic; widespread flooding causes damage – as it happened Morrison’s remarks followed a report on Friday in the Sydney Morning Herald, citing industry sources, that said West planned to play stadium concerts in Australia in March. Representatives for West, who released his latest album, Donda, in July, were not immediately available for comment. The vaccination status of West, a 2020 US presidential candidate who won fewer than 60,000 votes, is unknown. In a 2021 interview on social media he said he had received one vaccine dose but in a 2020 interview with business magazine Forbes, he called getting vaccinated “the mark of the beast”. 'The rules are you have to be fully vaccinated. Those are the rules. They apply to everybody, as people have seen most recently,' he told reporters. 'It doesn't matter who you are, they are the rules. Follow the rules, you can come. You don't follow the rules, you can't.' When cancelling Novak Djokovic's Australian visa earlier this month, Immigration Minister Alex Hawke admitted that the main reason was to prevent him from inciting any 'anti-vax sentiment' among the Australian public. '[Novak's] presence in Australia, given his well-known stance on vaccination, creates a risk of strengthening the antivaccination sentiment of a minority of the Australian community,' Hawke wrote. Back in 2020, West spread conspiracy theories about the vaccine, calling it 'the mark of the beast' and claiming that it was a plot to put microchips in people. 'When they say the way we're going to fix Covid is with a vaccine, I'm extremely cautious. That's the mark of the beast,' he told Forbes at the time. 'They want to put chips inside of us, they want to do all kinds of things, to make it where we can't cross the gates of heaven.' Health experts say that vaccines are safe and effective and that side effects are rare and there is no evidence that they contain microchips. Australia, one of the nations most heavily vaccinated against Covid-19, has been battling an explosive wave of infections in the past month driven by the fast-spreading Omicron variant, with about 2 million cases recorded. Until then, it had just 400,000 cases since the pandemic first hit nearly two years ago. On Saturday, 97 people died, after Friday’s pandemic record of 98 deaths. Health officials in several states said, however, that hospital admissions were either plateauing or showing signs of a decline. Source Dailya Mail The Gardian
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