Coronavirus: Cruise Line Suffers Unprecedented Crisis

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Faced with the confinement of several countries, cruise lines are plunged into an unprecedented crisis. Stop calls, immobilized liners, contamination on board; the journey of the passengers of these ships sometimes turns into a nightmare! The most recent case: New Zealand did not allow disembarkation of passengers from an ocean liner.

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New Zealand has banned the landing of 3,700 people on board the Golden Princess at one of its ports. Because three passengers there are showing symptoms of coronavirus. The ship was already in New Zealand waters when the government banned cruise ship calls.

Quarantine

On the other side of the world, in the West Indies, a Costa cruise ship suffered the same fate, last Thursday, in Martinique. The cruise was quarantined at Fort-de-France due to suspicions of coronavirus on board. Another ship, Costa Magica with 2,300 passengers on board, has been turned away from several Caribbean ports since leaving Guadeloupe on March 6.

No stopover

Same thing in Uruguay. The country has banned the stopover of an MSC liner and the descent of 3,000 passengers ashore in the resort of Punta del Este. In addition, the Marco Polo cruise and its approximately 1,000 people on board were unable to dock in either Israel or Cyprus due to a suspected case of coronavirus.

► Coronavirus: 500 passengers leave the sultry behind-the-scenes of the "Diamond Princess"

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• Coronavirus

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