My lovely Dad ( British national) died 4 days ago at his home in Belgium. I live many hours away from my siblings (we're all in the UK) and Covid is making an awful time worse. The Consulate rep was as useful as an umbrella under water , we're still unclear on whether we need to quarantine on arrival (negative PCR test required in any case, some sources say quarantine not required if staying less than 48 hours).
The funeral directors have been really supportive and we think we're just about sorted regarding the legal bits and the cremation. But there's no-one we can ask to go and deal with Dad's personal effects, no-one who can pack up his life on our behalf, if we can't go due to 20days quarantine in total. We all work and have young families and have used most of our leave to manage homeschooling / wrap around care - we just can't take that amount of time away from our families and our work. I just don't know what we're going to do , we've got a month to vacate his apartment, cremation taking place at the end of this week and none of us can be there if we have to quarantine. Dealing with his death from abroad was always going to be hard but the added issue of the pandemic is just impossible - ironic when he survived two lots of admissions to ICU being very ill with Covid19 last year.
I know it's shit for everyone, but knowing that doesn't answer my question as to how we are supposed to proceed. Has anyone dealt with similar recently? if so, how did you manage it ? I feel completely lost at this point.