Family caught up in coronavirus desperate for Christmas reunion after 10 months in limbo ThuThursday 17 updated ThuThursday 17 Hobart-based childcare educator Rinlada Apiwantanakorn has not seen her husband for about 10 months. ( Print text only Key points: Rinlada Apiwantanakorn and her three year old son Tharin were visiting family in Thailand when the pandemic struck The childcare educator has lived in Tasmania with her husband for five years, but has been denied a travel exemption to return four times She has not seen her husband for 10 months, and the young family has no idea when they'll be reunited But she and her son Tharin have been stuck on the outskirts of Bangkok for 10 months.