COVID-affected Afghan student in Kerala awaits e-visa for husband
The Hindu
He has been stuck in Afghanistan after the Taliban took over the regime.
Zama (name changed), an Afghan national doing her doctorate in the physics department at the University of Kerala, who is staying with her three children in a house at Kazhakkoottam in Thiruvananthapuram, recently turned positive for COVID-19. Her children are also symptomatic.
Managing it all alone, now she is anxiously waiting for a reply from the Indian Government after requesting approval of visa to her husband, also a postdoctoral student in the university.
He has been stuck in Afghanistan after the Taliban took over the regime. He is one among about 1,700 students, many of who have applied for e-visas, waiting for a response from the Indian Government to rejoin the educational institute and to meet their loved ones, who are staying here. However, there has been no response even as the colleges have reopened after the COVID-19 cases came down.