(Fighting against New Coronary Pneumonia) Germany's quarantined cruise ship plans to transfer confirmed crew to shore Chinese crew yet to be diagnosed
China News Agency, Berlin, May 5 (Reporter Peng Dawei) About 2900 people, the German cruise ship operator TUI Cruises, which is undergoing quarantine in the German port of Cuxhaven, said it is studying Seven crew members on board who had been diagnosed with new coronary pneumonia were transferred to shore for isolation. Tuyi said it will make a decision after consulting with relevant departments on the 6th. A reporter from China News Service learned that 58 Chinese crew members on board had not been diagnosed by the evening of the 5th local time.
"Myshev III" docked in Cuxhaven from April 28th. The voyage was to return the crew of the company's other cruise ships back to Germany and return to their home country from Germany. When they arrived in Cuxhaven, about 3,000 passengers were crew members and no tourists. On April 30, a crew member of the "Meshev III" was sent to the hospital in Cuxhaven for isolation treatment because of a positive test of the new crown, and the entire cruise ship was isolated on site.
Afterwards, the medical staff got on the ship and tested about the remaining 2,900 crew members (about 110 people had disembarked before a confirmed case). As of the evening of the 5th, two-thirds of the crew's test results have been announced, and a total of 7 people were found to be positive.
TUI Cruises previously planned to dispatch the "Mehif VI" next to the "No. 3" on the 5th, and then transfer the crew members who tested negative on the "No. 3" to the single room on the "No. 6". . But it said on the 5th that this plan could not be implemented. Tuyi is currently investigating the possibility of transferring several crew members who tested positive on board to shore for isolation. Tuyi said that this requires close consultation with all relevant departments before it can be implemented, and it is expected to make a decision on the 6th.
A reporter from China News Agency learned from the Chinese Consulate General in Hamburg that the Consulate General had learned from the Chinese crew members undergoing quarantine on the "Mech 3" that the 58 Chinese crew members currently quarantined on the cruise liner were temporarily not diagnosed.
According to the German "Times Online" report, as of 21 o'clock on the 5th, a total of 167,418 people were diagnosed, 129,853 were cured, and 7,179 died. Willer, the director of the German Koch Institute for Disease Control and Prevention, said on the same day that it was very good news to report the continued decline in the number of newly diagnosed patients. According to the data of the institute, in the week from April 27 to May 3, the number of newly diagnosed people is still between 700 and 1600; by May 4, this number has dropped to 685. (Finish)