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A Sydney woman who was blocked from visiting her dying mother in Tasmania has been forced to say her heartbreaking final goodbyes on a Zoom video call.
Mercedes Maguire and her three sisters in NSW have spent the past week trying to obtain a travel exemption after learning their mother Teresa Florez, 90, may only have days to live.
Health officials said Ms Maguire would first have to spend two weeks in quarantine and as a 'best case scenario' could leave isolation to visit her mother at her Hobart home for two hours at a time.
Ms Florez died at 3.30am on Wednesday before authorities in NSW and Tasmania could agree on a better alternative.
Mercedes Maguire was told she must spend 14 days in quarantine before seeing her dying mother Teresa Florez. Ms Florez died on Wednesday morning before authorities could agree upon a better alternative
The case drew the attention of NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet as well as the charity Angel Flight - who offered to fly the fully-vaccinated family into the island state.
Ms Maguire though told Daily Mail Australia the 'torment' of being in a nearby hotel or an Airbnb as her mother took her final breaths would have been too much to bear.
The journalist from Dee Why on Sydney's northern beaches instead had to farewell her mother on a video call on Tuesday night, The Daily Telegraph reported.
'The doctor came and said she was showing signs of pain and discomfort and upped her morphine dose, which she said would hasten her end,' Ms Maguire said.
Tasmanian Health Minister Jeremy Rockliff reportedly discussed the family's
