A woman has tearfully embraced her dying sister in Australia after weeks of bureaucracy wrangling over pandemic travel restrictions. Australia had rejected Christine Archer's request for permission to fly from New Zealand four times before her story attracted media attention.
Christine Archer, right, and her sister Gail Baker cry as they are reunited in Bowraville, Australia Wednesday, May 20, 2020. CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA -- A woman has tearfully embraced her dying sister in Australia after weeks of bureaucracy wrangling over pandemic travel restrictions.
Family friends drove the retired nurse 490 kilometres from Sydney to the New South Wales state coastal town of Bowraville. "I'm just so happy that I finally got to be here and be with her. The last two weeks have been the hardest or the longest two weeks of my life," Archer said. "I honestly don't know what they were thinking. I know it's an awful time at the moment with the virus ... but, I mean, there are some things you've got to be a bit lenient on and I felt this was one of them," she said.
The department did not immediately respond on Thursday to a request for an explanation for the change of heart on the sisters' reunion.
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