Thousands of Australians spend Christmas in isolation as Omicron cases swell

“Post [my father’s] funeral, there weren’t any flights to come back.”

Struggling to find commercial flights back into the country, Ms Naidoo applied for a repatriation flight from Johannesburg to Darwin, arriving in Australia on 12 December.

Throshni Naidoo and her nine-year-old daughter.

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