China News Service, April 7th, according to Taiwan ’s “Central News Agency”, on the 6th local time, Uruguayan officials and cruise companies said that an Australian cruise ship carrying more than 200 people was trapped in the offshore waters of Uruguay, with 81 passengers and The crew was diagnosed with new coronary pneumonia.
According to reports, the cruise ship is called "Mortimer" and belongs to an Australian tourism company called Aurora Adventures. It departed from the Argentine port Ushuaia on March 15th, and the destination is Antarctica.
The cruise company said that a group of Uruguay infectious disease specialists boarded the ship for evaluation last weekend and found that 81 passengers and crew members tested positive for the new coronavirus, while 45 others tested negative. In addition, the test results of about 90 people are still awaiting.
The Uruguayan Ministry of Health released news that six passengers on the cruise ship were in a "life-threatening" state. These passengers have been taken off the ship and are currently being treated in the Montevideo capital of Uruguay, but other passengers and crew are still Trapped on a boat 24 kilometers from the coast.
The cruise company said that it has begun the work of sending passengers back to China, but because most airlines have suspended their flights, and "there are difficulties in arranging charter flights," the matter will be "extremely complicated."