A California couple was surprised to find out last weekend they had contracted coronavirus after a month-long cruise to Antarctica.
“So we occupied the same space,” Bill Portanova said. “It could have come from their ship, although our ship quarantined itself for a full 14 days after leaving Stanley and nobody had it."
After being quarantined on the ship for two weeks, the couple got a flight out of Chile, traveling to New York and Los Angeles before arriving at home 46 hours later. “The only way back home was through one of the worst places in the world and we had no choice: New York and ,” he said.At first, they attributed their symptoms to jet lag and stress, “but my wife developed a fever Tuesday night and we both had sniffles and a little congestion,” he told
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