Heartbroken newlyweds stranded continents apart by coronavirus travel bans

The coronavirus pandemic has seen The coronavirus pandemic and travel bans put into place across the globe, with airlines grounding their entire fleets as international travel comes to a standstill.

For most people, it means cancelled holidays or rushed trips back to their home countries; but for one newlywed couple, the travel bans mean indefinite separation.

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Stephanie Currie and Alex Jackson dated long-distance for almost two years before they tied the knot in Florida earlier this month.

Jackson, who lives in London, met Currie at a Nova Scotia, Canada, art gallery where she works, and the pair struck up a romance that they've kept going by flying back and forth to see one another.

But now they've been left stranded on opposite continents, with their honeymoon plans in ruins and no idea when they'll be reunited.

"It's only been 10 days so far, but we're already braced for this to be the longest we've been apart," Currie, 34, told The Telegraph.

"We just want to be together, even if it's indoors."

The couple have never been separated for more than a month at a time, each regularly making long visits to the other's home country.

But with no end to the travel bans in sight, Jackson and Currie have accepted it could be months before they're together again.

The newlyweds had planned to meet in Paris for their honeymoon three weeks after their wedding, but there's no chance of that happening with the city on lockdown.

When they realised their honeymoon plans were dashed, Jackson and Currie started brainstorming other ways to be together, but with travel bans getting stricter every day, they're out of luck.

Even if they could find a way to get Jackson to Canada, or Currie to London, the couple would have to undergo a 14-day quarantine period and could risk contracting COVID-19 in transit.

Given both have parents in their 70s, a high risk group, it's a chance they know they can't take.

"We are more concerned about doing the right thing for the people we love," Currie said.

Though the newlyweds are in good spirits at the moment and are keeping up frequent contact, Currie admitted she's dreading the sadness that will come with being kept apart for months on end.

And while battling the heartache of separation, she and Jackson have something else to worry about too; their wedding party.

They had planned a party in the UK in September, where they could celebrate their union with Jackson's friends and family, but the whole event is up in the air now.

Currie has bought her dress and says the church is booked, but she's not holding her breath that the party will go ahead.

She'd have to get to England first, and with travel bans getting stricter by the day and no end to the coronavirus pandemic in sight, it doesn't look like she'll be reunited with Jackson any time soon.