JASON Acido is a medical technologist who, after a series of employment in the country and in East Timor, got hired in the Doha Health Care Group in March 2017. That was a three-year contract he signed, and so just this past March, his employment in Qatar ended.

That, however, was when the Covid-19 pandemic was declared by the World Health Organization and lockdowns, patterned after the earlier Chinese effective way of containing the coronavirus, were implemented the world over. One of the many consequences of lockdown policies is the cancellation of flights. Jason became stranded as soon as his Qatar employment ended.

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