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The Corona Boats thread- 21 cruise ships around the world have been affected by the coronavirus

Cruise workers on Holland America's stranded Oosterdam ship are growing anxious after a sick employee was airlifted off the ship and more than 100 crew members were forced into isolation because of coronavirus fears

Mark Matousek
  • Two crew members on Holland America Line's Oosterdam cruise ship criticized the communication onboard, which they say left many workers in the dark for three days about a sick colleague who was eventually removed from the ship.
  • They have been on the ship without passengers since March 14, and don't know when they'll be able to leave.
  • The two crew members were told by coworkers about a training exercise held less than two weeks after passengers left the ship that involved placing around 150 people in a single lifeboat.
  • "We know this is a very challenging and uncertain time for our crewmembers," a Holland America representative said. "We are working through several options to determine the best way to get our crewmembers home as soon as possible."
  • On April 3, the hotel director on Holland America Line's Oosterdam cruise ship told about a dozen crew members that one of their colleagues had tested positive for COVID-19, before shouting the news to about 20 others who were waiting in line to receive masks and gloves, two crew members told Business Insider. Later that day, the two crew members had their temperatures taken by a medical worker who visited their rooms. Each asked if the medical worker could confirm the hotel director's report, but they received the same response: I'm not allowed to talk about it.

    There are 753 people on the ship now, a Holland America representative said, which means the vast majority may not have learned about the sick crew member until Monday, when the ship's captain first mentioned over the vessel's intercom system that she had been removed from the ship for medical reasons the night before. The captain added that the Oosterdam has not been able to conduct accurate tests for COVID-19, as the necessary equipment is onshore. Business Insider heard a recording of the announcement.

    "This has been handled so poorly," one crew member said. "There's so little information they're giving us."

    The two Oosterdam crew members spoke to Business Insider on the condition of anonymity due to a fear of retaliation from Holland America. Their identities are known to Business Insider.

    "The type of tests that we have on board our ships are not approved by the US CDC or FDA as confirming tests, nor will they confirm a negative result. They are blood tests that indicate the presence of antibodies in someone who is ill and provide direction," the Holland America representative said. "Following CDC protocol, we immediately isolated the one crew member and their close contacts. When additional cases presented the crew was notified."...;) https://www.businessinsider.com/holl...ng-home-2020-4
 
How ANOTHER cruise ship was able to dock in Australia with sick passengers onboard who were then allowed to leave without being checked for deadly coronavirus - in eerie similarity to the Ruby Princess debacle
  • Ovation of the Seas cruise was allowed to dock in Sydney with sick passengers
  • Crew told holidaymakers they did not need to quarantine after disembarking
  • Ship told authorities there were 13 sick passengers, three with high temperature
By ZOE ZACZEK FOR DAILY MAIL AUSTRALIA

UPDATED: 12:14 EDT, 10 April 2020
The Ovation of the Seas cruise was allowed to dock in Australia despite 13 passengers falling ill onboard amid the coronavirus crisis, it has been revealed.

The Royal Caribbean-owned ship advised federal authorities about the unwell passengers - including three with high temperatures - before docking in Sydney on March 18, Seven News reported.

Just days before passengers were allowed to disembark at Circular Quay, the crew reportedly made an announcement that Australian Border Force advised they were not required to quarantine.

At least 98 passengers who were on the cruise - which was en route New Zealand -have tested positive to COVID-19 and a 72-year-old man has died. .....

...The Ovation of the Seas crew told passengers on March 16 they would not be required to self-isolate.

'In conference with ABF, or the Australian Border Force today, we have the confirmation that none of our guests will be required to self-isolate or anything of that sort,' the crew said.

'We have a full, clean bill of health, so to speak. Whether you're international or going back home in Australia, you will walk off and go home.'

But documents from the Department of Agriculture revealed 13 passengers showed symptoms of illness prior to docking.

'The symptoms declared by the vessel included three persons with temperature over 38 degrees Celsius, eight persons with muscle aches, diarrhea, severe headaches or vomiting,' the h.....;)

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...-Princess.html
 
Source: http://www.china.org.cn/world/Off_the_Wire/2020-04/11/content_75918447.htm
Uruguay to evacuate 112 passengers from coronavirus-hit cruise ship
Xinhua, April 11, 2020

MONTEVIDEO, April 10 (Xinhua) -- The Uruguayan government announced on Friday that it will create a humanitarian corridor to evacuate 112 passengers from the cruise ship "Greg Mortimer," as many of the passengers have contracted the COVID-19.

Australian and New Zealander passengers on the ship, which has been anchored for days off the Uruguayan coast, will be transferred from the port to the Carrasco International Airport for a flight to Australia. The flight will be specially equipped with medical personnel on board to deal with any health emergencies...
 
An Australian cruise ship stranded off the coast of Uruguay for two weeks has arrived at the port of Montevideo.

An Australian cruise ship stranded off the coast of Uruguay for two weeks with more than 100 people aboard infected with the new coronavirus arrived at the port of Montevideo.

Following an agreement between the governments of Uruguay and Australia, about 110 passengers are due to be evacuated from the Greg Mortimer and taken along a "sanitary corridor" to Montevideo's international airport, where they will take a medically equipped charter flight to Melbourne.
The Australian and New Zealander tourists -- including people who tested negative and others confirmed ill with the virus -- will be taken on buses with a police escort straight to the runway without entering the terminal.

They are due to take off in the early hours of Saturday local time.

Of the 217 people -- passengers and crew -- aboard the ship, 128 have tested positive for the virus.

Aboard the plane, passengers will be "seated by test results and level of care required by passenger," said Australian company Aurore Expeditions, owner of the Greg Mortimer.

The tourists were on an expedition to Antarctica, South Georgia and Elephant Island when their adventure was called off due to the nearest South American countries -- Argentina and Chile -- closing their borders and imposing lockdowns.

The ship traveled to Montevideo as it was the nearest port still open.

It had been anchored in the Rio de la Plata since March 27.


Since then, eight people have been taken from the ship to hospitals in Montevideo with "life-threatening" conditions.
.....;) https://www.sbs.com.au/news/greg-mor...ontevideo-port
 
No sail order' extended by CDC for cruise ship industry during COVID-19 pandemic


The first order was issued on March 14.
By: Scripps National
Posted at 1:00 PM, Apr 10, 2020
and last updated 1:18 PM, Apr 10, 2020

....
The CDC said the order would stay in place until one of the following situations occur:
  • The expiration of the Secretary of Health and Human Services' declaration that COVID-19 constitutes a public health emergency.
  • The CDC director rescinds or modifies the order based on specific health or other considerations.
  • One hundred days from the date of the publication in the Federal Register.
Currently, the CDC said there are about 100 ships at sea off the east, west, and gulf coast with nearly 80,000 crew onboard.

;)https://www.wptv.com/news/national/c...id-19-pandemic
 
All the cruise ships that have had confirmed cases of COVID-19 onboard

?ine Cain, Mark Matousek and Ruobing Su

4 hours ago
Cruise ships on the high seas have seen major COVID-19 outbreaks.
  • Thousands of cruise ship passengers and crew members have fallen ill with COVID-19 since the global coronavirus pandemic began.
  • Major cruise industry players like Carnival, Royal Caribbean, and Norwegian have all seen cases within their fleets...
Here's a look at the cruise ships at the center of the coronavirus crisis on the high seas:
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Ruobing Su/Business Insider
;)https://www.businessinsider.com/crui...andemic-2020-4
 
48 Costa Atlantica cruise crew members have coronavirus; Ruby Princess departs Australia

Morgan Hines
USA TODAY


On Thursday, Costa Cruises revealed an additional 14 crew members tested positive for coronavirus on the Costa Atlantica, raising the number of cases on the ship from 34 on Wednesday to a total of 48. The ship has been in dry dock for repairs in Nagasaki, Japan, since Jan. 29.

The 14 new positives came from a round of 66 tests, Costa Cruises said in a release provided to USA TODAY by Roger Frizzell, spokesperson for parent company Carnival Corp.

Japanese officials are investigating the coronavirus outbreak on board Costa Atlantica, which has puzzled authorities. The southern port city has a relatively low number of infections and the vessel has been docked for almost three months.

The outbreak on the Italian-operated Costa Atlantica surfaced Tuesday when officials from Nagasaki and Mitsubishi Heavy Industry, which is in charge of repairs and maintenance on the ship, announced that a crew member developed a cough and fever.

As of Thursday, 47 of those crew members remained quarantined on board. Frizzell said one was medically disembarked Wednesday after becoming seriously ill and has since been put on a ventilator.

Costa Cruises said the ship has 623 crew of 36 different nationalities, including a Japanese translator. There are no passengers on board due to the ongoing repair work. Costa Atlantica's repair work was moved to Nagasaki due to the pandemic, which began in China, where the work was originally scheduled to be done.

The remaining staff do not have serious symptoms and remain quarantined on board in single rooms, except for those on essential duties, including cooking and delivering food for their colleagues, officials said. Some of the essential crew also are infected.

Nagasaki officials have said they plan to have the crew of the Costa Atlantica quarantine themselves on board unless they develop serious symptoms, and seek ways to let others who tested negative return to their countries.

Nagasaki is getting support from a military medical team and plans to test all the remaining crew by Friday.

Details of the movements of the crew are not clear, but officials suspect they had either contracted the virus while in town or when the ship switched crew in the past few weeks.

Mitsubishi initially said the crew has not left the dock since March 14, when Nagasaki reported its first coronavirus case and asked all crew members to stay on board. But the company acknowledged the following day that some members who passed body temperature checks and other requirements had been allowed off the ship.

There have been other people outside of the crew that have come and gone from the ship though.

"Outside technicians and local agents have been on the ship as part of the dry dock maintenance program being undertaken in Japan," Frizzell told USA TODAY Thursday. "They have been required to undertake temperature checks before being permitted to board."

As infections in Japan continue to spread nationwide, the outbreak on the ship has raised concerns about testing and hospital capacity in Nagasaki, which has 17 people infected, 11 of whom are hospitalized. As of Thursday, Japan had nearly 12,000 cases and 299 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins data.

Earlier this year, the U.S.-operated cruise ship Diamond Princess had 712 infected people among more than 3,700 passengers and crew while it, too, was quarantined in Yokohama, Japan, near Tokyo. A total of 13 people have died, according to Johns Hopkins data. ...:tiphat:https://www.usatoday.com/story/trave...ss/3010080001/
 
Virus tally rises to 91 on cruise ship off Japan

2020-04-24 HKT 10:36
As many as 91 crew of an Italian cruise ship docked in Japan's southwestern port of Nagasaki are infected with coronavirus, officials said on Friday, as questions persist over how and when they will return to their home countries.​

Authorities are racing to complete tests on about 290 of the 623 crew after one of them was found infected this week. The high rate of infections has fanned concern about the potential strain on medical services if patients' conditions worsen.

Those who have tested negative will be repatriated, Health Minister Katsunobu Kato said on Friday, according to Kyodo news agency, a decision welcomed by officials in Nagasaki prefecture....:tiphat:https://news.rthk.hk/rthk/en/compone...abChangeable=0
 
Nearly 150 total coronavirus cases confirmed on cruise ship in Japan

Posted on April 25, 2020By Kate Kelland and Raphael Satter

TOKYO (Reuters) – Nearly 150 cases of coronavirus infection have been confirmed among crew members of an Italian cruise ship docked in Japan after health authorities finished testing everyone on board, an official said on Saturday.

The Nagasaki prefecture official said 57 more crew had tested positive, bringing the total infections on board the Costa Atlantica to 148, roughly one quarter of the vessel’s 623 crew members.

Authorities began testing after one crew member tested positive for the virus earlier this week. No passengers are on board the vessel, which has been docked in Nagasaki in southwestern Japan since February for repairs and maintenance after the pandemic prevented scheduled repairs in China....:tiphat:https://www.metro.us/nearly-150-total-coronavirus/
 
Source: https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/coron...dian-cruise-staff-from-getting-home-1.4928892

Floating 'prison' as countries bar Canadian cruise staff from getting home
Solarina Ho
CTVNews.ca Writer
Annie Bergeron-Oliver
Parliamentary Bureau Reporter, CTV National News
Meredith MacLeod
CTVNews.ca Writer
Published Thursday, May 7, 2020 10:19AM EDT

TORONTO -- At least 310 Canadians employed on nearly 100 cruise ships remain stranded at sea, as they say they are being denied entry at ports despite repatriation efforts by the Canadian government and cruise companies.

And they are not alone: tens of thousands of crew members are still living on otherwise-empty passenger vessels still at sea.

Family, friends, and crew from multiple ships including the Emerald Princess, the Disney Dream, and the Norwegian Epic have told CTVNews.ca that ships are having trouble finding a country that will even allow their own citizens - let alone international crew members - to disembark...
 
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