Ottawa family stranded in India one step closer to coming home

Katie Tayler, her sister Aimie Calagoure, and their mother are now in Mumbai, awaiting a repatriation flight to Canada. The Canadians had intended to travel from Goa to Mumbai on Saturday, but their bus never arrived. Speaking to CTV Morning Live's Leslie Roberts on Wednesday, Tayler said they were relieved when this latest bus showed up. "We were early to our pickup time and we ran because we didn't want to miss it, just in case, so we were very relieved when we got on the bus," Tayler said. There were 32 Canadians on board the 40-seater bus, Tayler said, and it stopped only three times for bathroom breaks. "It was a good five, six hours before we started our journey because of all the pickups and there were a lot of police checkpoints along the way." "They're going to pick us up at 10 p.m. to go to the airport where we're told we'll have to wait outside because they're only bringing four our five people through security at a time," Tayler said. "Mumbai is busier than New Delhi on a normal day and there's not a single soul on the roads. Tayler and Calagoure said they spent a lot of time trying to calm their mother down, assuring her they would make it back to Canada. All travelers returning to Canada from abroad must self-isolate for 14 days upon arrival, regardless of whether or not they have symptoms of COVID-19.