She said she was unwilling to let her passport be canceled. “That just makes me nervous anytime someone messes with my passport any way,” Ms. Dillard, a Milwaukee native, said in an interview on Monday. A spokeswoman at the State Department in Washington did not have an immediate comment when asked about the notice to cancel stranded Americans’ passports. The senior State Department officials said that in some cases, foreign governments had imposed restrictions to contain the virus that prevented American flights from departing. That means flights have had to fly through military airports, which do not have the capacity to manage all the additional air traffic.

Source: International New York Times March 23, 2020 23:37 UTC