Marin Pavkovic, 84, and his wife, Angela, 79, were passengers on the Costa Luminosa, which had a coronavirus outbreak days after leaving Fort Lauderdale on March 5 for a trans-Atlantic trip to Italy.
An elderly couple stuck on a coronavirus-infected cruise ship in the Mediterranean are back in Florida now, but have been"prisoners" in their West Palm Beach home for two weeks while awaiting their COVID-19 test results.
An elderly couple from Fort Pierce were on the ship too, but their daughter asked that they remain anonymous and declined to talk about their experience. Confined to their cabin and not knowing when or how they would get off the 1,400-passenger ship was nerve-wracking, Marin Pavkovic said; but things got worse when they got off the ship and began a harrowing journey home.
Several dozen French passengers also were allowed off the boat. French media later reported 36 tested positive for COVID-19.The buses sat on the tarmac for five hours before passengers boarded an overnight flight to Atlanta.
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