{"id":50527,"date":"2020-09-29T16:00:29","date_gmt":"2020-09-29T16:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/?p=50527"},"modified":"2020-09-29T16:00:29","modified_gmt":"2020-09-29T16:00:29","slug":"coronavirus-were-australian-but-were-trapped-in-the-uk-by-mary-oconnor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/coronavirus-were-australian-but-were-trapped-in-the-uk-by-mary-oconnor\/","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus: ‘We’re Australian but we’re trapped in the UK’-By Mary O’Connor"},"content":{"rendered":"

Coronavirus: ‘We’re Australian but we’re trapped in the UK’-By Mary O’Connor<\/span><\/h1>\n

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Andrew (left) could not attend his mother’s funeral<\/strong><\/p>\n

Source:<\/span>BBC<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Last Thursday, Andrew Leslie, 52, woke up at 04:30 BST at his east London home for his mother’s funeral. It was taking place some 10,000 miles away in Sydney, Australia.<\/span><\/p>\n

Australia’s strict coronavirus rules left Andrew, an IT worker, unable to get a flight home in time. He had no choice but to say a “surreal” goodbye to his beloved 92-year-old mum, Helen, via an online live stream.<\/span><\/p>\n

“I really cannot describe the sadness and grief I’ve felt over the last few weeks, we always thought we were only 24 hours from being home,” Andrew says.<\/span><\/p>\n