Quarantined Kiwi denied compassionate exemption watches terminally-ill mum die over Facetime
(WorldNews New Zealand)

A woman who returned home from Sydney after hearing her mother had terminal cancer was left with no option but to watch her die over Facetime from her isolation hotel room. Veronica Lagaaia on her wedding day with her mother, Veronika Lofipo. Source: Supplied Veronica Lagaaia received news on June 30 that her mother Veronika Lofipo had terminal lung and bone cancer. Ms Lagaaia, based in Sydney with husband Mafi, immediately started looking for flights home to Auckland as Ms Lofipo made repeated visits to the hospital. `There were no flights for those three weeks - it was hard,` she said, `we were checking every day to see if anything would pop up - but nothing did - we were willing to pay...