A GLOBAL pandemic was the furthest thing from Gabrielle Hill's mind when she took up a post at Birmingham's Moseley Hall Hospital in September last year.

Originally from Mildura, the 26-year-old said she had planned to see Europe from her base in the UK, where she was working as a physiotherapist on the hospital's traumatic brain injury ward.

"I got a two-year working visa, which started in Augu...