Tears and heartbreak as flight ban keeps Farang-Thai families apart

The ban on international flights is stopping Michael O’Halloran from returning to his three daughters and wife in Chonburi. O’Halloran is stranded in Ireland. Foreign nationals married to Thai citizens who are stranded overseas due to the ban on incoming flights are pleading with the government to let them return so they can be with their families.

Many of the families are angry, while they know it is difficult times and many difficult decisions have to be made by the Thai government, but why keep Thai / foreign families apart for so long? How is it fair that Thai people and children must be without a loved one or a parent because they are not Thai?

Recently, Thai nationals who are stranded abroad are allowed to return home in limited numbers based on the capacity of state quarantine facilities and hospitals. Hopefully with the added hotels and hospitals, it will speed up the process to allow foreign tourist and families back home to their families.

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