Synopsis
Husbands and wives, mothers and fathers separated from each other and from their children; jobs, careers, and mortgages jeopardized, and schooling thrown out of whack.
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Pankaj Patil lost his father, a retired government official in Nashik, to Covid-19 on April 2. He rushed home from US, where he works as an IT professional on an H1B visa, to be with his mother. With his wife Kavita expecting their second child at their home in Connecticut, Pankaj, with all his work and travel papers in order, hoped to take his mother back with him to help navigate what doctors have said would a high-risk pregnancy because of high sugar and thyroid fluctuation.
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WASHINGTON: Pankaj Patil lost his father, a retired government official in Nashik, to Covid-19 on April 2. He rushed home from US, where he works as an IT professional on an H1B visa, to be with his mother. With his wife Kavita expecting their second child at their home in Connecticut, Pankaj, with all his work and travel papers in order, hoped to take his mother back with him to help navigate what doctors have said would a high-risk pregnancy because of high sugar and thyroid fluctuation.
On April 30, just before Pankaj was to travel back to his wife and six-year old daughter Aarushi, the Biden administration announced restrictions on travel from India to contain Covid-19 variants from entering the US.
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WASHINGTON: Pankaj Patil lost his father, a retired government official in Nashik, to Covid-19 on April 2. He rushed home from US, where he works as an IT professional on an H1B visa, to be with his mother. With his wife Kavita expecting their second child at their home in Connecticut, Pankaj, with all his work and travel papers in order, hoped to take his mother back with him to help navigate what doctors have said would a high-risk pregnancy because of high sugar and thyroid fluctuation.
On April 30, just before Pankaj was to travel back to his wife and six-year old daughter Aarushi, the Biden administration announced restrictions on travel from India to contain Covid-19 variants from entering the US.