{"id":16647,"date":"2020-03-31T01:30:28","date_gmt":"2020-03-30T16:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/31\/i-am-desperate-thousands-of-australians-stuck-abroad-amid-coronavirus-plead-for-help-to-get-home"},"modified":"2020-03-31T01:30:28","modified_gmt":"2020-03-30T16:30:28","slug":"i-am-desperate-thousands-of-australians-stuck-abroad-amid-coronavirus-plead-for-help-to-get-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=16647","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;I am desperate&#8217;: thousands of Australians stuck abroad amid coronavirus plead for help to get home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Citizens overseas from India to Peru and on cruise ships fear window to return to Australia is rapidly shutting<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/newsletters\/2020\/mar\/28\/sign-up-for-guardian-australias-daily-coronavirus-email\">Sign up for Guardian Australia\u2019s daily coronavirus email<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2020\/mar\/29\/coronavirus-live-news-trump-proposes-quarantine-of-new-york-and-other-hotspots\">Follow live global coronavirus updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Almost 300 Australians have landed in Sydney on a commercial repatriation flight from South America, but thousands of citizens and permanent residents still remain stranded across the world as airlines cease flying and more national borders lock down.<\/p>\n<p>Many still stranded have been caught by desperate family circumstance, suddenly cancelled flights or closed borders and fear the window to return home is rapidly closing without definitive action from the Australian government to repatriate its citizens.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/31\/i-am-desperate-thousands-of-australians-stuck-abroad-amid-coronavirus-plead-for-help-to-get-home\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Citizens overseas from India to Peru and on cruise ships fear window to return to Australia is rapidly shuttingSign up for Guardian Australia\u2019s daily coronavirus emailFollow live global coronavirus updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageAlmost 300 Aust&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":371,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[665,43,1069,62,914,1258],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airline-industry","category-australia-news","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-india","category-infectious-diseases","category-peru"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/371"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16647"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16667,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16647\/revisions\/16667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}