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Two teenage sisters were finally able to reunite with their parents in Australia, after Covid-19 separated them for nearly 12 months.
When 15-year-old Paige and 13-year-old Ella Hughes said goodbye to their family in early January, they didn’t know it would be almost a year before they could hug their parents again.
Paige and Ella study and stay at St Peter’s School in Cambridge and normally fly home to Australia’s Northern Territory during school holidays, but this year border closures meant that this was not possible.
“Sometimes I get sad and I want a hug from my parents, but they are not there”, she tells her schoolmate and KEA Kids News reporter Lachie Wallace, 11.
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“It was very difficult, I miss them a lot,” adds Paige.
In the video above, Paige and Ella share how they have dealt with being away from their family for so long, and we see their emotional reunion with their parents Jason and Angela, as well as the moment they surprise their younger sister at school.
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Paige and Ella Hughes have an emotional reunion with their mother Angela, whom they have not seen since January, due to Covid-19.
Also in this episode we head to an Auckland airfield to see a legendary World War II Spitfire fighter jet turn on its engine for the first time in 73 years.
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