Nightmare cruise. There was an outbreak of Covid-19 and gastroenteritis on board the ship.Big princess” while sailing between Queensland and the city of Adelaide, Australia.
The Story of the Grand Princess
In the first weeks of November Cruise ship “Grand Princess” traveled along the east coast of Australia, between the Queensland region in the north and the city of Adelaide on the south coast.
However, from the first days on board, a few cases appeared COVID-19, which quickly became a small epidemic. Later, another pathogen spread and caused several attacks of gastroenteritis.
The city of Adelaide where the ship is docked
The forced docking
The ship had to dock last Monday to make this possible Passengers on board are still sick to disembark and receive treatment on land, as well as to stop the two epidemics that broke out on board.
Passengers complained in addition to the inconvenience caused by the two diseases prevalent on the shipto a lack of communication and chaos that the crew couldn’t have handled.
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“When speaking to other guests, it was quite common that the person they were traveling with was incarcerated, had just been released from prison or was ill. If there were two in the room and one was sick, One could walk and the other couldn’t“explained a passenger.
The conditions of the passengers
The Prime Minister of South Australia Peter Malinauskas said all people requiring urgent medical attention had been disembarked and were now in hospital facilities in Adelaide.
Marguerite Fitzgerald, President of the parent company of Majestic princess, Carnival Australia also added that the Covid-19 cases detected were low viral and showed minimal symptoms. However, infected patients have been advised to stay away from public places as usual.
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It’s not the first time a cruise ship has found itself at the center of an outbreak in Australia. In 2020 Ruby Princess was docked in Sydney with sick people on board: there were over 600 infections and 28 deaths.
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