Indian parents in UAE watch son’s funeral in Kerala on FacebookCOVID-19-related travel ban prevents couple from accompanying body flown to hometown

Sharjah: An Indian family in the UAE had to watch the funeral of their cancer-stricken son on Facebook as they could not accompany his body flown to their native state of Kerala due to COVID-19-related travel restrictions.

Born on Easter in 2004, Jeuel G. Jomay lost his seven-year-long battle with cancer this Good Friday, a day before he turned 16 on April 11.

A grade 10 student of GEMS Millennium School in Sharjah, Jeuel breathed his last in American Hospital in Dubai, where he was admitted two weeks earlier, his cousin told Gulf News.