But across the world, clusters of students remain stranded: A half-dozen physical therapy students from the University of North Carolina are stuck in Guatemala. Fifteen students from Alabama, Georgia and North Carolina, who are training to be paramedics and physician assistants, remain in Peru. “These are unprecedented circumstances,” the State Department said in an emailed statement. The dearth of commercial flights has left students and their advisers with, at best, a patchwork of options. The State Department also cautioned US citizens that consular services abroad may be limited because the agency had allowed staff members to return home if they were at high risk of infection.

Source: bd News24 March 22, 2020 10:07 UTC