Brit among four dead on coronavirus cruise ship stranded off Florida as health chiefs warn of ‘humanitarian disaster’
Tony and Jennie Wills implored with the US Government to allow them to disembark the coronavirus-infected shipThe couple, from Earls Barton in Northamptonshire, believed they would be included in a transfer to 'healthy' cruise ship the Rotterdam, that took place off the Pacific coast of Panama at the weekend.
Her husband Tony, 80, said information from the ship's captain and operator, Holland America Cruise Lines, had been poor. Governor Ron DeSantis told a news conference on Tuesday that Florida's health care resources were already stretched too thin by the coronavirus outbreak to take on the Zaandam's caseload.
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