Virus Outbreak India Stranded Tourists

Apr 3, 2020

In this Thursday, April 2, 2020, photo, Australian Matthew Chinery takes a picture of food stocked in his room at Old Goa Residency in Goa, India. Tourists stranded in India after their vacations were abruptly ended by India's coronavirus lockdown and grounded flights are running out of money and hoping their embassies can help them get home. Chinery had planned for a long vacation, including the tourist's paradise of Himalayan Kashmir and learning new sewing techniques he could use for his business back home. He was kicked out of a hostel because his smoker's cough resembled a COVID-19 symptom. Other hotels and hostels refused to let him stay unless he had a coronavirus-negative certificate. So he checked himself into a government hospital, got tested and waited four days in isolation with other suspected cases of the highly infectious disease, he told The Associated Press on Thursday. Despite being tested negative, he still didn't make finding a room easy. (Matthew Chinery via AP)

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