Coronavirus cases surge in U.S. as data shows many still travelled for Thanksgiving Gagandeep Kaur is a Masters of Applied Science student at Queen’s, and for her, home is in India’s north.[ Sign up for our Health IQ newsletter for the latest coronavirus updates ]She is involved in research at the university and says COVID-19 protocols make it impractical for her to travel home.“If I go back to India, to my parents, then I have to take testing here and then after coming back in here then I have to quarantine for 14 days again, so that doesn’t add up.” said Kaur.Kaur says even if she could make the trip home, under the current circumstances she wouldn’t.“I don’t want to risk my parents’ life if I did catch COVID, going home.” said.