There are lots of options for taking an all inclusive family
vacation in the Caribbean. Vice President Pence, who leads the coronavirus task force, touted the industry's initial plan to beef up passenger screening and quarantine protocols. Officers transferring those affected off the Diamond Princess cruise ship in Japan. The hundreds of crew members onboard the Ruby Princess ship, which departed from Australia on Thursday, marked their 30th day in quarantine on the ship on last week with a video thanking the medical workers who have cared for them.
But the fear thus far seems to be psychological: While travel advisers have noticed fewer last-minute bookings for the normally popular time that extends from January through March, they said they weren't seeing many cancellations yet. Governments and ports responded by preventing many cruise ships from docking and advising people to avoid travelling on cruise ships.
We largely have looked to government's health authorities to capture and manage this data as part of its oversight role." He said the company has only recently started to use testing kits on board one of its ships, the Zaandam; it does not have tests on the others.
The U.S. government evacuated several hundred passengers from a Princess Cruises vessel in Japan, the Diamond Princess , that experienced a coronavirus outbreak in February. Although not strictly a shore excursion the glacier is visited by most cruise ships in the area.
While it awaited test results, the cruise line did not initially tell passengers about the sick woman who got off the ship, even though she was hospitalized, relatives of current passengers said. Our situation is getting worse," said Caio Saldanha, a DJ from Brazil who works for Celebrity Cruises, owned by Royal Caribbean.
Late in the day, the CDC and the State Department alerted all Americans to avoid cruise travel , citing an increased risk of COVID-19 infection on ships. According to the CDC, over the last two months, COVID-19 outbreaks on three cruise ships have caused more than 800 confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus in the United States among passengers and crew, including 10 deaths.