Coronavirus outbreaks on cruise ships 2020-2021-2022, COVID illness updates, statistical data (passenger/crew deaths, financial stats), impact on cruise companies and the travel industry
Cruise ships were an early source of outbreaks last year at the start of the coronavirus pandemic as some ships were rejected at ports and passengers were forced into quarantine. Some passengers died of COVID-19 at sea while others fell so ill they had to be carried out of the vessels on...
TOKYO, April 24 (Xinhua) -- Prefectural officials in Nagasaki, southwestern Japan, said Friday that 43 more crew members aboard a cruise ship docked in the Koyagi district have tested positive for the COVID-19, bringing the total to 91. The figure compares to a day earlier when 48 addition...
The outbreak on the Coral Discoverer came only days after Australia ended its prolonged ban on cruise ships entering its ports, a safety precaution which immediately stalled an industry estimated to generate about 5.2 billion Australian dollars (about 3.7 billion U.S. dollars) annually. That ban b...
CRUISE shipsCOVID-19 testingOCEAN travelSYMPTOMSObjectives: To describe the impact of universal screening for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) on passengers on cruise ships docking in Sydney, Australia, during 2022 that experienced a significant outbreak of COVID-19. Type of ...
Moriarty, L. Public health responses to COVID-19 outbreaks on cruise ships—Worldwide, February-March 2020.Morbid. Mortal. Wkly. Rep.69, 347–352.https://doi.org/10.15585/mmwr.mm6912e3 ArticleCASGoogle Scholar Depellegrin, D., Bastianini, M., Fadini, A. & Menegon, S. The effects of...
READ ALSO:Nanaimo couple caught aboard cruise ship with four dead and COVID-19 present Monday morning, March 30, Tilley reported both ships had passed through the canal overnight. “We went through the canal in a cloak of darkness,” she said. “We were ordered to turn ...
READ ALSO:Nanaimo couple caught aboard cruise ship with four dead and COVID-19 present Monday morning, March 30, Tilley reported both ships had passed through the canal overnight. “We went through the canal in a cloak of darkness,” she said. “We were ordered to turn...
When COVID-19 was detected among passengers on the cruise ship Diamond Princess, the vessel offered a rare opportunity to understand features of the new coronavirus that are hard to investigate in the wider population. Some of the first studies from the ship — where some 700 people were ...
Despite stringent measures supposed to minimize Covid outbreaks on ocean cruises, operator Royal Caribbean says at least 48 people on board one of its ships that docked in Miami at the weekend have tested positive for the virus. The Symphony of the Seas, the world’s bi...