|Shiksha Dev|THE DEN|
A Broadway veteran, the North Carolina resident had returned home after a long-awaited bucket list trip to Africa with her mother, daughter, and niece. Upon arrival at the first stop in a multi-leg trip from Zambia to Raleigh, they were eager to begin the journey. Everything was going smoothly. Kennedy Brady, 47, grabbed her phone and discovered a new coronavirus variant had been detected in South Africa. As soon as the new restrictions took effect, the family found itself stranded, their reservation on the next flight canceled.
“Until that moment, everything seemed fine. We weren’t experiencing any trouble traveling. “There have been protocols ... but that is just the world we live in now,” Kennedy Brady said. “This all happened within minutes - there was only ‘And stop.’ ”
Kennedy Brady and her family could face disruptions because various governments are scrambling to restrict travel, shutting their borders to southern African countries amid concerns about the disease's potentially dangerous variant, called omicron. Those rule changes are already having ripple effects for travelers as the holiday season gets underway.
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