Five test positive for Covid on first cruise ship to resume sailing in the Caribbean

[Judi Lynn]

Source: CNBC


PUBLISHED THU, NOV 12 20207:14 PM ESTUPDATED AN HOUR AGO
Will Feuer
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The Seadream 1 ship after it docked in Bodo, Norway on August 5, 2020 on suspicion of a corona infection on board.
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Five passengers aboard the first cruise ship to resume sailing in the Caribbean have tested positive for the coronavirus, according to reports and an interview with a passenger.

The captain of SeaDream Yacht Club’s SeaDream 1, Torbjorn Lund, reported the positive Covid tests in an announcement to passengers and crew, Sue Bryant, a cruise editor for the Sunday Times, who is currently on the ship, said in a phone interview with CNBC. Gene Sloan, a cruise writer for The Points Guy who is also on the ship, confirmed the announcement, as well.

Bryant said the five people who tested positive appear to be travelling in one group.

SeaDream, an Oslo, Norway-based luxury cruise liner, did not immediately return CNBC’s request for comment.

Read more: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/11/12/five-test-positive-for-covid-on-first-cruise-ship-to-resume-sailing-in-the-caribbean.html

[Liberty Belle]

1. Why are plague ships allowed to be sailing at all?

They need a bailout for the industry to stay docked until the vaccine is widely available and require that all passengers get vaccinated before their trips.

A mass breakout on a cruise ship is a death sentence, without ventilators on board and trained medical personnel to handle many cases. Imagine being far out to sea and suddenly unable to breathe.

[underpants]

2. In one group? Sounds like some unlucky folks

[R Merm]

3. Only five?

[Stallion]

5. The First Case was After 1 Day

[Eugene]

4. They are advertising a rigorously enforced "bubble" without a quarantine.

This was almost certain to fail.

[bamagal62]

6. Who in the heck is boarding a cruise ship?

Seriously?