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Albertans abroad finally make it home amid COVID-19 crisis: ‘It was utter relief’

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More than 10 days after the federal government urged Canadians to return home over novel coronavirus fears, many Albertans have finally made it back.

Sheila Ethier and a group of friends landed in Bucerias, Mexico at the end of January. Originally, the group was scheduled to return home to Edmonton April 7 but calls from Canadian Foreign Affairs to come home cut their trip short. “There wasn’t too much excitement but by Sunday, a lot of the restaurants had closed, there was this huge exodus of tourists. “It was like a ghost town,” Ethier described.

Ethier was then scheduled on a March 25 WestJet flight. Then WestJet announced it was suspending all international flights effective March 22.

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