‘All we have left is to hope and pray’: Travellers stranded in airport by coronavirus


  • World
  • Thursday, 26 Mar 2020

FILE PHOTO A man wearing protective mask is seen in silhouette as he looks at an information board at Kuala Lumpur International Airport after Malaysiarsquos government closed its borders due to the spread of the coronavirus disease COVID-19 in Sepang Malaysia March 18 2020. REUTERSLim Huey Teng

FILE PHOTO: A man wearing protective mask is seen in silhouette as he looks at an information board at Kuala Lumpur International Airport, after Malaysia’s government closed its borders due to the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Sepang, Malaysia March 18, 2020. REUTERS/Lim Huey Teng

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Russian hostel manager Valerie Azure has spent the past three nights sleeping on the floor of a Malaysian airport along with her young son, after Southeast Asian nations sealed borders and cancelled flights in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.

Azure, 31, said more than a dozen people were stranded with her in the international airport in Kuala Lumpur, among hundreds marooned across the globe, according to media reports, as the virus plays havoc with travel plans.

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