The cruise ship of the MSC shipping company departed on December 28 with 5,000 passengers.
A cruise ship of the MSC shipping company has docked this January 4 in the Italian city of Civitavecchia (center) to disembark the 150 passengers who tested positive for coronavirus after taking a control test, the company reported.
The ship left Marseille (southern France) on December 28 with 5,000 passengers, of which 150 tested positive yesterday after taking a coronavirus test at its stop in Genoa (northern Italy), within the security protocol of the cruise company, according to a statement.
After testing positive, those infected, “mostly asymptomatic”, were quarantined in their cabins with their close contacts until the cruise captain notified the health authorities of the Covid-19 outbreak and they were able to start a first landing in Genoa.
In this Italian port, the first 40 foreign positives fell and were transferred to a nursing home in Genoa for quarantine.
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This morning the rest of the infected began to disembark in Civitavecchia, mostly Italians, who will be taken home by private means or collected by their relatives so that they can quarantine.
After the disembarkation of the positives, the cruise will continue its seven-day journey with the rest of the passengers who have not become ill and who are destined for Malta, according to the statement.
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The company assures that the situation is “under control” Thanks to the security protocol against the coronavirus that they have in place and that includes three tests for passengers, at the beginning of the cruise, in the middle – which was when the outbreak was detected – and at the end of the trip.
By cons, one of the cruise passengers assured that although the figures show 150 positives “in reality there are many more” because inside the ship it is impossible to quarantine, picks up the Italian medium Fanpage.
The woman said that one day after boarding on December 28, ten positives were already reported and highlighted the lack of measures to prevent contagion. (I)
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