Maltese in virus-free New Zealand and total lockdown in England are living in a parallel universe. Fiona Galea Debono compares normal life in one country with a very new normal in the other.
Pandemic life for Maltese in New Zealand and England is poles apart, with masks being an alien concept in one country and a walk in the park the only lifeline for the other.
[attach id=1017378 size="medium" align="right" type="image"]David Cilia Vincenti in the New Zealand mountains, unfazed by a travel ban in a country that can offer many a change of scene. [/attach]
In pathologist David Cilia Vincenti’s world, life in virus-free New Zealand never really changed during the last year, while educational and child psychologist Stephanie Satariano is navigating her third lockdown in London.
New Zealand lifted COVID-19 restrictions back in June, so Cilia Vincenti, who relocated eight years ago, lives a normal life – except that he cannot travel overseas.
But it is a small price to pay, he acknowledges, especially when compared to Satariano, 18,000km across the globe, whose daily and only outing to the park has kept her young family going.
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