TOKYO: When Julie Sergent's father died, she faced an agonising decision: If she travelled from her home in Japan to attend the funeral in France, ...
TOKYO: When Julie Sergent's father died, she faced an agonising decision: If she travelled from her home in Japan to attend the funeral in France, she wouldn't be allowed back.
In Japan, citizens can leave and re-enter the country. Those coming from designated high-risk areas are tested for the virus on arrival and asked to observe a quarantine. "My mother was devastated. I was the only one in the family who couldn't attend my father's funeral," she told AFP. Ordinarily, Yukari would have taken the first flight out, but instead, she was forced to rely on friends of the family to help her mother.
That has left people like Nyamtseren Erdenetsetseg and her husband Sukhbaatar Dorj, who are stuck in South Korea, with no way back and no idea when they will see their children in Mongolia again. They tried in vain to get a seat on an evacuation flight, and then on May 3, Dorj's mother died suddenly.
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