This is the heartwarming moment a young woman came face to face with her family after the pandemic kept them apart for two years apart.

Nurse Hannah Patterson, 25, moved to Sydney, Australia, in 2019, and made the tough decision to isolate there after the Coronavirus hit in March 2020.

But after two months with zero face to face contact Hannah was finally able to return in secret nd surprise her loving relatives.

Footage shows screams, hugs and tears of joy, as Hannah is reunited with mum and dad, her sisters, and her five-month-old niece, who she was meeting for the first time.

Hannah, from County Tyrone, Ireland, said: “I moved to Australia in Sept 2019 on a working holiday visa to work as a nurse in Sydney, Australia.

"In March 2020, during the first lockdown in Sydney I went to work on a farm for three months, which then gave me another years visa.

“I decided going home wasn’t the best idea for me at that time as the situation at the time in NI was much worse than what we were experiencing in Sydney.