Kolkata Girl Will Travel 10,000 Km Through 3 Countries To Reach University In Hong Kong

A student who has started college during the coronavirus pandemic is suffering the most. Neither they are able to enjoy all the fun a college life offers nor they are getting the kind of exposure they should be getting via their college.

But the travel restrictions due to the extended pandemic in India has left a lot of students deprived of going back to their international colleges. While most colleges abroad have already opened up, Indians students are losing money and education due to covid-induced restrictions.

So, a girl from Kolkata by the name Isha B found a way to return to her university in Hong Kong by taking a mega detour.

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It will take her over 3 weeks, 17.5 hours that will just be spent on flights and over 10,000 km to reach Hong Kong. Even though the distance from Kolkata to Hong Kong is just over 2,000 km away her detour is going to take her places, reports TOI.

Isha¡¯s weird journey itinerary came into effect on Tuesday when she flew from Kolkata to Mumbai, the place she stayed the evening earlier than boarding a flight to Male within the wee hours of Thursday. Five others college students from the same college who¡¯ve been equally stranded in Delhi, Mumbai and Bengaluru are travelling along with her.

On reaching Male, they are going to keep for 14 days in a resort accepted for quarantine earlier than taking a flight to Dubai on August 19. There, the scholars will keep per week earlier then board a flight to Hong Kong on August 26.

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Isha¡¯s family will be spending over Rs 3.5 lakh on the journey in opposition to Rs 35,000, the fare for a direct flight from Kolkata to Hong Kong. Moreover, a journey which could have been of just 4.5 hours has been stretched to a 528-hour itinerary with different flights going to different places.

About this, her father Ravi B told Times Of India, When the pandemic was declared final March and the Indian authorities introduced that everyone worldwide flights can be suspended, our daughter flew again in a rush. Since then, she has been attempting to return to the college however in useless. There have hardly been any flights between the 2 nations and issues acquired sophisticated additional with India getting into the pink checklist from the place journey is banned by a number of nations. Because the college is now insisting that college students return to campus, Isha has no choice however undertake this arduous journey. ¡±

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Travel agent Anil Punjabi, who helped the family make the itinerary said, ¡°Since India is on the red list, a 14-day stay in Male will ensure that they can travel again to Dubai which is on the green list. However, to enter Hong Kong, a person has to be on the Green List in one or more countries in the past 21 days. Also, RT-PCR test is to be done from a specialized class laboratory with international recognition. Since this facility is available in Dubai, there is a seven-day stay in Dubai before going to Hong Kong.¡±

Since India is in the red zone, the future of several students studying abroad has suddenly become quite uncertain.