‘Love is not tourism’: hope for couples kept apart by virus. — Vivanity/IStock.com pic via AFP-RelaxnewsCoronavirus travel restrictions have kept lovers and unmarried couples apart since the outbreak, but governments around the world are now showing more understanding of their plight, with some introducing measures to allow a happy and long-awaited reunion.
The rules — judged unfair by melancholy lovers — prompted a worldwide social media campaign called “Love is not tourism”. In theory, member states can choose to allow unmarried partners in documented relationships to enter the EU, but in practice few do so. Travel restrictions have prevented Emeric Tonri from returning from France to Vietnam where he lives with his wife and their four-year-old daughter.
Since the outbreak, Azema has been stuck in France and her boyfriend in his home country, where he fled to escape the worsening health crisis in Iran.
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