“There are hundreds of key workers wanting to get home and help the Covid effort,” Jessica Chiodo told BuzzFeed News.
Four days ago, Jessica Chiodo made the snap decision to cut short a holiday in New Zealand and return to the UK to join her NHS colleagues on the front lines of the fight against theChiodo, a 24-year-old anaesthetic and recovery practitioner at a hospital in north west England, booked a seat on the first flight back to the UK from Christchurch that she could find. But on Tuesday, while she waited at an airport hostel, she was informed that she wouldn’t be allowed to board.
Foreign tourists are still allowed to leave the country, but for many that is proving to be practically impossible. Because of New Zealand’s isolation, flights back to Europe and the UK need to travel through transit hubs in Australia, Asia and North America, but those destinations, also in lockdown, are now not letting transit passengers pass through.
In Christchurch, Chiodo had booked a dormitory bed in a backpacker hostel for two nights while she waited for her flight. The hostel told her she would have to leave because she didn’t have a private room. “Essentially I was homeless and the advice was to ring a hotline that I couldn’t get through to,” she said.
“There are hundreds of key workers [stuck in New Zealand] wanting to get home and help the Covid effort,” Chiodo added.Josh Rennie, 29, from York, was on a backpacker bus tour of the South Island late last week when it became clear that the New Zealand government was tightening measures to stop the spread of coronavirus. The tour operator cut the trip short and headed for the nearest airport.
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