Novak Djokovic has been taken into immigration detention in Melbourne, with his appeal against the second cancellation of his visa to be heard in court at 9.30am tomorrow.

The tennis star was taken by car to the Park Hotel in Carlton, escorted by a border official.

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Djokovic's case was briefly heard in the Federal Court of Australia at 10.15am today, when more than 24,500 people tuned in to the online stream to witness the details of tomorrow's hearing be decided.

Djokovic's lawyer Paul Holdenson QC told the court Djokovic had no objection to all documentation involved in the hearing being placed on a public online portal.

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Mr Holdenson said there would be "no problem with the matter finishing on time" if the hearing began at 9.30am on Sunday.

Justice O'Callaghan ordered Djokovic's lawyers file their written submissions by noon on Saturday, with the government to file their written submissions by 10pm.

Stephen Lloyd, who is acting for the Immigration Minister, requested a live transcript of tomorrow's hearing, which Justice O'Callaghan agreed to.

Djokovic has a mammoth weekend ahead battling Immigration Minister Alex Hawke's decision on Friday night to cancel the Serbian sportsman's visa for a second time, with the Australian Open due to begin on Monday.

The reigning champion met with Australian Border Force officials at a "secret location" at 8am today to be formally detained and interviewed.

At a late-night hearing before Judge Anthony Kelly of the Federal Circuit and Family Court on Friday, Djokovic's lawyer Nick Wood SC requested the "secret location" to avoid a "media circus".

"We have a genuine concern about security and a potential media circus to be frank," he said.

After the interview, Djokovic was been permitted to join his legal team at their offices – whilst under the supervision of two ABF officers – to spend crucial hours with his legal team building a defence case.

Upon leaving his lawyers' offices this afternoon, Djokovic will be taken back into detention.

The Australian Government agreed on Friday not to deport Djokovic until any ruling is made.

At Friday's late-night court hearing, Djokovic's lawyer Nick Wood SC criticised the timing of Mr Hawke's decision and said every minute was "extremely precious" for the men's tennis world No.1, who as the top seed is set to play his first match of the Australian Open on Monday.

"We are where we are because of the time the minister has taken," Mr Wood said.

"We are moving as fast as we can."

In a preview of what will be debated in front of Justice O'Callaghan, Mr Wood revealed one of the reasons Djokovic's visa was cancelled was the concern over the Serb "exciting anti-vax sentiment" if he was allowed to stay in Australia.

Mr Wood described the reasoning as "patently irrational", saying the decision did not consider whether removing Djokovic from the country would have a similar effect.

"The minister only considers the potential for exciting anti-vax sentiment if he (Djokovic) is present," he said.

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Mr Hawke said in his decision just before 6pm Friday that he was cancelling Djokovic's visa "on health and good order grounds, on the basis that it was in the public interest to do so".

Prime Minister Scott Morrison supported the minister's decision, saying "Australians have made many sacrifices during this pandemic and they rightly expect the result of those sacrifices to be protected".

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A province in Canada is looking to introduce a health tax to unvaccinated residents due to the pressure they place on the health system.

Professor Nancy Baxter told Today 90 per cent of Quebec, which is Canada's second-most populous province, is fully vaccinated and the health tax would be "fair" to those who chose to get vaccinated.

"It is not fair to the 90 per cent that we're kind of being paralysed and our health care system is being totally clogged up by the 10 per cent that won't get vaccinated," she said.

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"What they want to do is to kind of levy a tax on people who are unvaccinated.

"So it probably happened through your tax or they send a bill or withhold money from your tax returns."

Professor Baxter, a Canadian herself, said the community still wants the unvaccinated to receive health care however introducing the levy would be more "fair".

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The health tax has not yet been introduced and must first pass through the Canadian courts.

Professor Baxter added this health tax would probably not work here in Australia.

"So I don't know if this would actually be something that would work in Australia," she said.

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"Particularly because Quebec is all of a public system. There is no private system."

"Whereas it's a different health care system here."

She said, instead, the government should reveal the burden the unvaccinated are placing on the health system.

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Almost 1000 New South Wales health care workers have been stood down or quit because they refused to get the COVID-19 vaccine.

NSW Health confirmed 995 of its 170,000 workforce have resigned or been sacked after refusing the vaccine.

This includes 325 people who have resigned and 670 who were stood down by NSW Health due to their vaccination position.

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"NSW Health can advise that of its entire workforce of about 170,000 people, approximately 0.2 per cent (325) have resigned due to their vaccination position as of 23 December 2021," a NSW Health spokesperson said.

"Additionally, approximately 670 people (0.4 per cent) have now ceased employment with NSW Health due to their position in relation to the COVID-19 vaccine."

"These former employees were a mix of clinical and non-clinical staff."

"The importance of having our workforce vaccinated has never been more evident than during the current difficulties presented by the Omicron variant, particularly with the high number of COVID-19 cases in the community and subsequent presentations and admissions to our hospitals."

Currently, there are also about 6000 health workers who are in isolation due to COVID-19 exposure.

This comes despite National Cabinet agreeing to extend the workers who are exempt from close contact restrictions.

Health care workers now only need to obtain a negative rapid antigen test result before returning to work.

This is aimed to assist the pressure plaguing the health system and to stop supply chain disruptions in other industries.

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The health system is facing extreme pressure as hospitalisations and ICU admissions continue to rise in the state's surging Omicron wave.

Yesterday, there were 2525 people in hospital, 184 of whom are in intensive care.

NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet said yesterday in terms of hospitalisations and ICU admissions, the health system was outstripping even the most optimistic modelling.

"So that is encouraging, reassuring and pleasing," he said.

Mr Perrottet said the health system was nonetheless under pressure.

"It is going to be a difficult few weeks ahead but the tracking that we are releasing today is very reassuring and encouraging given where we sit today in in the pandemic."

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NSW recorded 63,018 COVID-19 cases yesterday and 29 deaths.

Of the positive cases, 37,938 were from rapid antigen tests that NSW Health said included 24,329 results from the past seven days.

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