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Reuters
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Brenda Goh

After 65 days in limbo, American finally waves goodbye to China's COVID lockdown

Laura Hudson, a U.S.citizen who taught at a high school in China's northeastern city of Changchun, speaks during a video interview with Reuters, before she goes back to the United States amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19)outbreak, in Changchun, Jilin province, China May 9, 2022, in this screengrab obtained from a video on May 11, 2022. REUTERS TV via REUTERS

For the last 65 days Laura Hudson has been on a mission to leave China, navigating through all of its COVID restrictions to get back to the United States.

On Wednesday, she finally boarded an Air China plane at Beijing's international airport that would take her home. As an airport official checked her temperature was normal, the 41-year-old from Arizona began to cry.

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