Four passengers died on Zaandam cruise ship with 148 people sick with flu-like symptoms
Four passengers have died aboard the Zaandam as it awaits permission to transit the Panama Canal.
Almost 150 people are sick with flu-like symptoms, according to a release from Seattle-based Holland America cruise line. It is owned by Miami-based Carnival Corp.
The captain announced the deaths to passengers and crew Friday afternoon. He also stated the company planned to evacuate hundreds of healthy passengers to a sister ship anchored nearby.
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/coronavirus/article241559956.html
Woman dies days after sister became first Illinois coronavirus death
By Joshua Rhett MillerMarch 27, 2020 | 12:41pm | Updated
An older sister of Illinois’ first coronavirus victim has also died from the disease, according to reports.
Wanda Bailey, 63, of Crete, died Wednesday at a hospital in Olympia Fields nine days after COVID-19 claimed the life of her younger sister, Patricia Frieson, a 61-year-old retired nurse who marked the state’s first known coronavirus fatality on March 16, the Chicago Tribune reports.
https://nypost.com/2020/03/27/woman-dies-days-after-sister-became-first-illinois-coronavirus-death/
The cruise began in Rio on March 7th.
Who did not know there was a pandemic underway on March 7th?
sister ship empty? then that’s a good idea