Healthy passengers stayed on board the ship till their repatriation flights, which happened on March 29. Some 36 passengers tested positive for Covid-19 following a verify from Australian well being officials upon the Artania’s arrival in Fremantle, Western Australia. The Artania cruise ship set sail on a 140-day world cruise from Hamburg, Germany, to Bremerhaven, Germany, on December 21, 2019. Those on board have been briefly quarantined to their rooms after a passenger left the ship in Sicily for well being reasons, but the quarantine was lifted after this passenger tested negative for Covid-19. Boarding the world cruise in January, Lindberg did not think about that the itinerary can be impacted.
For cruise routes around Hawaii, operators are required to register their ships in the United States and the crew is unionized, so these cruises are typically far more expensive than in the Caribbean or the Mediterranean. Operators of cruise …
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