Edmonton couple stuck quarantining in Toronto, say they were denied flights home
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A flight to Africa last month to do humanitarian work turned into a procedural mess when an Edmonton couple tried to return home.
Melanku Game and his wife Janet Game are worried they might not make it home in time for Christmas. A flight to Africa last month to do humanitarian work turned into a procedural mess.
“We’re setting up for an eight-country regional cancer treatment centre of excellence to be built in Ethiopia,” Melaku explained.
The couple have lived in Canada for three decades. Melaku is a doctor at the Royal Alexandra Hospital and Cross Cancer Institute in Edmonton.
Although the Games flew in and out of Ethiopia, Melaku’s meeting about the cancer centre was in South Africa, one of the countries Canada recently imposed stricter travel regulations on due to the Omicron COVID-19 variant.
By the time the couple arrived in Toronto, it had been 13 days since Melaku was in South Africa. Janet had never gone to South Africa because she broke her leg, tripping on a staircase in Ethiopia.
The doctor hoped they wouldn’t have to quarantine. He is triple vaccinated and Janet is double vaccinated.
Both had negative PCR tests from Ethiopia, he said, and Melaku also had one from South Africa.
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