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Coronavirus Updates: Cruise Ship Held Off California as State Declares an Emergency @ 2020-03-05T20: Back Hot News
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THE SHIP HAD 2,600 PASSENGERS ON THAT TRIP, ACCORDING TO PRINCESS CRUISES SPOKESPERSON ALIVIA OWYOUNG ENDER. THE PASSENGER WHO DIED WAS A 71-YEAR-OLD MAN, PRINCESS CRUISES SAID.
DETAILS: PRINCESS CRUISES CONFIRMED IN A STATEMENT THERE HAD BEEN A "SMALL CLUSTER" OF COVID-19 CASES IN NORTHERN CALIFORNIA CONNECTED TO ITS GRAND PRINCESS CRUISE SHIP. NEWSOM TOLD A NEWS CONFERENCE THE SHIP WOULDN"T DOCK IN SAN FRANCISCO AS EXPECTED THURSDAY. HEALTH OFFICIALS ARE FLYING TO THE VESSEL TO CONDUCT TESTS ON 21 SICK PASSENGERS AND CREW MEMBERS AND SCREEN OTHERS STILL ABOARD.
JUNEAU - A CRUISE SHIP THAT WAS TURNED AWAY FROM PORTS IN ASIA BECAUSE OF FEARS OF SPREADING THE CORONAVIRUS IS EXPECTED TO ARRIVE IN ALASKA THIS MONTH.
AS THE CORONAVIRUS SPREADS ACROSS THE GLOBE, THE CRUISE INDUSTRY HAS TAKEN A HIT. CRUISE COMPANIES ARE PREDICTING LOWER PROFITS THIS YEAR, SHIPS HAVE BEEN STRANDED AS GOVERNMENTS BLOCK THEM FROM PORTS, AND PASSENGERS ON PRINCESS CRUISES' DIAMOND PRINCESS SHIP FACED A WEEKS-LONG QUARANTINE THAT RESULTED IN OVER 700 PEOPLE CONTRACTING THE VIRUS.
SINCE THE TRAVEL RESTRICTIONS HAVE GONE INTO PLACE, ALL OF CARNIVAL CRUISE LINE SHIPS HAVE BEEN CLEARED TO SAIL AND THERE HAVE BEEN NO OPERATIONAL CANCELLATIONS. BECAUSE OUR SHIPS ARE MOBILE, WE CAN QUICKLY MODIFY OUR SHIPS" ITINERARIES TO INCLUDE ALTERNATE DESTINATIONS WHEN NECESSARY. SINCE THERE ARE NO IDENTIFIED PUBLIC HEALTH ISSUES SPECIFICALLY RELATED TO OUR OPERATIONS, OUR TICKETING AND CANCELLATION POLICIES REMAIN IN PLACE AT THIS TIME.
AS MANY AS 800 TOURISTS FROM THE UNITED STATES AND AUSTRALIA ABOARD THE MV VIKING SUN CRUISE SHIP WILL NOT BE ABLE TO VISIT SURABAYA, EAST JAVA, AS THE SURABAYA AND EAST JAVA ADMINISTRATIONS HAVE DENIED THE CRUISE SHIP ENTRY TO THE CITY.
THE SHIP INVOLVED, THE GRAND PRINCESS, IS IN THE PACIFIC AFTER TRAVELING TO HAWAII, AND CRUISEGOERS ON THIS VOYAGE AND THE PREVIOUS ONE RECEIVED A HEALTH ADVISORY WEDNESDAY. SOME PEOPLE WERE PASSENGERS ON BOTH CRUISES, OFFICIALS SAID.
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OVER THE WEEKEND, 82 PEOPLE WERE SICKENED ON A ROYAL CARIBBEAN CRUISE SHIP OUT OF BALTIMORE DUE TO A FLU OUTBREAK. AND WITH OVER 90,000 CASES OF CORONAVIRUS WORLDWIDE AND MORE THAN 100 IN THE U.S., ROYAL CARIBBEAN WILL BE SCREENING FOR BOTH.
“THEY DO A VERY GOOD JOB AT CLEANING AND SANITIZING WITH BLEACH AND ANTIBACTERIAL CLEANSER TO SANITIZE ALL THOSE COMMON AREAS AND TOUCHPOINTS AT THE HARBORS AND AT THE PIERS WHERE THOSE CRUISE SHIPS LOAD AND UNLOAD,” SAID TIM SAKAHARA OF THE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION.
GOV. GAVIN NEWSOM SAYS CORONAVIRUS TESTING KITS WILL BE FLOWN TO THE GRAND PRINCESS CRUISE SHIP, WHICH REMAINS AT SHORE SOUTHWEST OF SAN FRANCISCO.
THE HOLLAND AMERICA LINE CRUISE SHIP WESTERDAM PREPARES TO DOCK IN JUNEAU ON JULY 16, 2012. (PHOTO BY HEATHER BRYANT/KTOO)
GREEK REPORTER CONTACTED THE PORT AUTHORITY OF PIRAEUS BUT AS OF YET, THERE HAS BEEN NO OFFICIAL INFORMATION ISSUED FROM ANY GREEK AUTHORITIES ABOUT THE CRUISESHIP. THE SHIP’S OPERATOR IS MSC CRUISES, BASED IN GENEVA, SWITZERLAND.
LIKE COLLEGE DORMITORIES AND MILITARY BARRACKS, SHIPS CROWDED WITH TOURISTS ARE GREAT INCUBATORS OF DISEASE, PARTICULARLY THE HIGHLY CONTAGIOUS NOROVIRUS, WHICH CAUSES VOMITING AND DIARRHEA. COME DOWN WITH IT, AND YOUR VACATION IS RUINED. IF ENOUGH PEOPLE GET SICK, THE WHOLE CRUISE CAN COME TO AN ABRUPT STOP. OVER THE WEEKEND, A NOROVIRUS OUTBREAK FORCED A PRINCESS CRUISE IN THE CARIBBEAN TO END A DAY EARLY. THE CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION REQUIRES SHIPS TO REPORT SICK PASSENGERS OR CREW. LAST YEAR, 10 CRUISES REPORTED THAT MORE THAN 3 PERCENT OF THEIR CREW AND PASSENGERS SUFFERED GASTROINTESTINAL ILLNESSES; EIGHT WERE POSITIVELY IDENTIFIED AS NOROVIRUS.
STATE HEALTH OFFICIALS SAID WEDNESDAY THEY ARE MONITORING A SITUATION REGARDING A CRUISE SHIP THAT RECENTLY MADE STOPS IN HAWAII AND MIGHT HAVE HAD PASSENGERS PREVIOUSLY EXPOSED TO COVID-19, THE RECENTLY IDENTIFIED CORONAVIRUS THAT HAS INFECTED NEARLY 100,000 PEOPLE WORLDWIDE SINCE IT WAS DISCOVERED IN LATE DECEMBER.

 

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