After 6,000 passengers on a cruise ship in Italy were put under quarantine for believing a passenger had coronavirus, the quarantine has been lifted.
The source added that the cruise line has amended the Smeralda's itinerary as a result of the day lost to the quarantine. The Smeralda will skip Friday's planned port call in La Spezia and remain docked in Civitavecchia, about 50 miles northwest of Rome, until Friday evening before heading back to Savona, Italy, for disembarkation.
The woman and her traveling companion reportedly boarded the ship on Jan. 25 in Savona, and she developed a fever and had difficulty breathing, according to the source.First US case of person-to-person transmission confirmed Because the ship had operated under a sanitary protocol to isolate the sick passengers, none of the passengers or crew were allowed to disembark until the test results came back, the source said.
Cruise ship stock prices took a hit Thursday following news of the cruise ship's lockdown. No one on board tested positive for coronavirus, but that didn’t stop luxury liner stocks from tumbling.told Yahoo Finance’s On The MoveFears about traveling by sea took a heavy toll on stocks. Share prices of the world’s largest cruise operator, Royal Caribbean, fell 1.48% as of 3:31 p.m. EST on Thursday. Carnival Cruises saw even more of a drop at 3.35%. Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings dropped 2.
The cruise ship woes are a double whammy for travel industries, with many airlines canceling flights to China and other Eastern destinations.
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