Families lose thousands after university cancels graduation over coronavirus

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One family spent £6,130 on visas, flights and hotels for four family members and are due to land in London tomorrow, meaning there’s no time to cancel plans.

Proud parents from across the world have been left out of pocket after the University ofMany loved ones are due to fly to the capital this week and were only told of the cancellation two days ago, leaving no time to cancel flights and hotel bookings.

Akarsha Weerasooriya and his family were waiting years for next month’s ceremony at the Barbican Centre Some 4,000 attendees from more than 100 countries were due to attend the ceremony, which was for students of University London’s distance and flexible learning programmes. He told Metro.co.uk: ‘There’s nothing stopping people coming here. It doesn’t really make any sense to me when people are going to travel here anyway.’

The university said many people would be travelling from regions affected by the airborne Sars-like virus ‘She had worked two low wage jobs without an off day just so she could continue her studies with uol, it’s sad to watch her scrounge up every penny and borderline starving since getting results so that she could afford attending the graduation, the flight tickets all the way from Asia, the accommodation costs for herself and family who had never stepped out of their country before, just so that she could reward her parents with a special day, gone down to the gutter.

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thats why you get travel insurance.

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