A Burnaby woman is worried her father may be stranded in India after that country announced a full 21-day lockdown to fight the novel coronavirus pandemic.
Preet Basi says her father Jiwan travelled to the state of Haryana on a business matter back in February, before the Canadian government advised against international travel due to the coronavirus pandemic, with plans to return on April 10.
As the coronavirus crisis worsened, efforts to book an earlier return flight were unsuccessful as commercial airlines began limiting flights out of India, and other countries began shutting their borders.
Rescheduling a flight was made even more difficult, she says, when officials closed the Delhi airport on March 22. On Tuesday, Basi learned Indian
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