Posted on 04/08/2020 12:46:04 PM PDT by Capt. Tom
Of the 217 people tested aboard the Greg Mortimer cruise ship, 128 came back positive for COVID-19, while 89 tested negative, the Aurora Expeditions cruise line confirmed. The Australia-based company said all passengers and crew that have tested positive did not have fevers, and were asymptomatic as of Tuesday.
The Greg Mortimer, which is currently off the coast of Uruguay, departed on March 15 for a voyage to Antarctica and the island of South Georgia, but has been anchored off the coast near Montevideo since late March, after authorities in Uruguay blocked the ship from disembarking over coronavirus concerns, the Sydney Morning Herald reported last week. FOLLOW US ON FACEBOOK FOR MORE FOX LIFESTYLE NEWS Since that time, local medical teams boarded the ship to conduct tests for COVID-19. By Monday, Aurora Expeditions said 81 of those onboard had tested positive, and 90 cases remained pending.snip
On Tuesday, the number of positive cases rose to 128. Since the beginning of April, six people have also been transferred to hospitals in Uruguay for further medical care, though Aurora Expeditions said all six people ashore are stable.
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Really well built boats....
Why in the hell do people keep getting on cruise ships during this?!
The cruise ships have to face a lot of problems, some being shore side hospitalization of seriously ill people, getting many multinational passengers off the ship and onto airplane flights to places around the world. We are talking about thousands of people, from differfent countries on many cruise ships.
Many of the countries these ships are flagged in do not have the resources of hospitalization and transportation .
Also many countries have shut down their ports to ships coming in.
It is quite a messy problem, since some of the passengers are citizens of the country where the ship wants to dock. And some are facing death, unless they get to a good hospital.
Lots of situations to deal with for the health officials and politicians. -Tom
I wonder if the asymptomatic people have a virus with a mutation that makes it less dangerous, and if we are helping ourselves if these asymptomatic people spread their version?
I think it would be easy enough to demand that any international notification of a pandemic requires that a) such ship return to the most recent port-of-call in a timely manner, and b) the most recent port-of-call receive said ship.
From Daily News:
A passenger who boarded the Greg Mortimer in mid-March, even as multiple cruise liners were stranded at sea with coronavirus outbreaks, said he thought he would be safe.
For several days on board we thought we were in a nice, safe bubble away from the problems of the world and were disillusioned when, six days later, fellow passengers temperatures started to rise," John Clifford told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
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