First Caribbean Cruise Since March Is Already a Disaster After Passenger Tests Positive for COVID-19!

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Caribbean cruise lines have been shut down since March due to the pandemic, and they're burning money pretty badly. Desperate to get back in the game to try and recoup their losses, one of these companies, the SeaDream Yacht Club, decided to take the risk of running a test trip with 53 passengers and 66 crew onboard its small vessel, Seadream 1. After testing everybody for COVID-19 before they boarded—but not requiring masks—a passenger felt ill and tested positive. That was yesterday. Now, the ship has returned to port with everybody quarantining in their rooms.

 

Travel journalist Gene Sloan is a passenger onboard and has detailed his experience on The Points Guy. As of Thursday, the ship is still in port in Barbados. A letter was apparently slipped under passengers' doors this morning saying that the ship’s captain, Torbjorn Lund, was working with the authorities on how to proceed. The letter also said that more testing was done to try and ensure the disease has not spread to other passengers, though the results of those tests have yet to return.

 

 

[Moon_Walker]

Endho ee gola..eppud end avuddho

[MiryalgudaMaruthiRao]

hmm