Coronavirus Cruise Ships

Older adults and people with serious chronic medical conditions such as heart disease diabetes or lung disease should especially defer travel on cruise ships including river cruises because of their increased risk for severe disease.

Coronavirus cruise ships. Cruises with confirmed or suspected COVID-19 cases have previously been denied permission to dock or to disembark passengers. All the passengers are required to be vaccinated before joining the cruise but on. Tens if not hundreds of thousands of passengers and employees faced anxious waits to be allowed to disembark and make their.

CORONAVIRUS - LIVE MAP OF CRUISE SHIPS AFFECTED BY NOW Ships with reported cases of coronavirus found on board in 2020 are shown on the live map below. Cruise ships like the Diamond Princess the Grand Princess the Ruby Princess the Oasis of the Seas and the. Sequencing of SARS-CoV-2 - first update Technical guidance-18 Jan 2021.

Gray-designated ships may have their own COVID-19 health and safety protocols which CDC has not reviewed or confirmed. CDC recommends that all people defer travel on cruise ships including river cruises worldwide. After all such ships can pack quite a few people together into relatively close quarters.

Health and safety protocols guest conduct rules and regional travel restrictions vary. If a certain threshold level of COVID-19 is detected onboard the ship during your voyage the voyage will end immediately the ship will return to the port of embarkation and your subsequent travel including your return home may be restricted or delayed. This investigation threshold gives CDC and the cruise industry.

The CDC has recently reported that 15 of the 24 ships currently sailing in US. The study population included persons on board on February 3 2666 passengers 1045 crew. This can have serious implications for passengers and seafarers on board.

Princess Cruises is pushing back the return of two of its ships and is canceling several sailings amid a recent surge in coronavirus infections. Last week in Alaska the small cruise ship the American Constellation also reported a COVID-19 positive test. The Carnival Vista cruise ship sailing out of Galveston Texas reported 27 people testing positive over two weeks in late July and early August the highest number of cases since cruises started.