New Orleans: Cruise ships carrying at least 17 passengers and crew members with a breakthrough Covid-19 infection when docked in New Orleans have sailed again with new passengers.
Nine crew members and eight passengers were infected when Norwegian breakaway arrived on Sunday, Louisiana’s health spokesman said on Monday.
No one has symptoms and only people who are vaccinated fully permitted, said Norwegian Cruise Line.
The Cruise Line said all passengers who took the Norwegian breakaway on Sunday were offered the opportunity to cancel without a penalty.
The company did not immediately respond to the question of whether anyone canceled or how many passengers were brought to ship now.
“Guests who choose to sail must wear masks while in the room except when eating or drinking actively and will be tested twice during the cruise,” said the statement.
Breakaway can carry up to 3,963 passengers.
The Caribbean route from New Orleans including Cozumel and Costa Maya in Mexico; Roatán, in the Honduras Bay Islands; And harvest Caye, Belize.
Previous statement from Norway Cruise Line said that every passenger who tested positively would push themselves or “isolate themselves in the accommodation provided by the company”.
Some people left the ship on Sunday to WVUE-TV that they had been told that people on the ship had been positively tested for Covid-19, but others said they did not.
Don Conole of North Carolina said he got the first news because he heard the station’s interview with someone nearby.
“It would be nice to know.
We will take maybe some precautions,” he said.
Passengers said they were tested for Covid-19 exposure on Saturdays.
The cruise line also gave passengers to take a quick test when they left the ship, according to WVUE.
Cruise ship.
It was an initial source of outbreak at the start of the Coronavirus pandemic last year, and several ships were rejected at the port and passengers were forced to quarantine.
The CDC issued a no-sail order in March 2020, pushing traffic jams that ended last June the cruise ship began to leave our port with new health and safety requirements.