Vacation cut short: Getting home during a pandemic

Video by: Payton Tysinger

COVID-19 has a third of the world’s population on some sort of lockdown. But on March 5th, there were only two coronavirus cases in North Carolina and the government was only advising people to wash their hands. UNC students left for spring break, but midway through their trips, a European Union travel ban was announced and everything changed.

Payton Tysinger

Payton Tysinger is a junior from Lexington, NC, majoring in broadcast journalism and political science. He currently works as a production assistant at WRAL and hopes to be a correspondent at the network level.

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  1. Very traumatic experience for these UNC STUDENTS! They did what was necessary, waited it out and finally made it back to the USA AND THEIR CLOSED AND ON LIKE STUDIES IN THEIR HOME OF REFERENCE! Yes, traumatic, however exciting and home safely to their apartments in self quarantine
    At UNC , Chapel Hill, NC🙏👍🏼🤷‍♀️💁‍♀️!