Jewel on 45 Minute Coronavirus lockdown in Sydney

[elwood_98034]

Daily Mail

A woman is being tested for the deadly coronavirus after attempting to board a cruise ship in Sydney.

Paramedics were called to the international passenger terminal at Circular Quay shortly before 7.30am on Friday as the ship, the Norwegian Jewel, docked.

The vessel arrived in Sydney after a 10-day tour of New Zealand. It is scheduled to make its way to Melbourne on Saturday. 

It is understood the a woman in her 50s was taken to hospital as she appeared to be suffering respiratory illness.

 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8002211/Cruise-ship-placed-lockdown-Sydney-Harbour-passenger-tested-coronavirus.html

Edited February 14, 2020 by elwood_98034

[Cyberburn]

I guess I can understand with people standing in line with her.


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[mugtech]

Been an hour, now what?

[julig22]

Well, the first clue that this particular article needs a little fact checking is that it claims the person was trying to board - that doesn't usually happen until the current passengers have disembarked.

 

But there are other articles - some report that it's a man from Singapore, others say a woman, some say the ship is in lock down (which I believe has been denied and passengers have left the ship) and so on.  But leave it to the press to rush to get the scoop without waiting to find out what is really happening.

 

More recent reports (and NCL comments) indicate that a person, possibly with pre-existing medical issues and current respiratory issues, was taken off the ship ahead of other passengers, so disembarking passengers were delayed by about 45 minutes and have been permitted to leave the ship.  Passengers on the next cruise were asked to wait an additional hour or so to embark (reported by actual passengers on the next cruise).

[elwood_98034]

People are getting pretty nervous, that's for sure.

[lixogab]

1 hour ago, elwood_98034 said:

People are getting pretty nervous, that's for sure.

Only those who had early flights. Our luggage tag  was supposed to be called at 9:15, was called at 9:45.

 

The only annoying thing was the a broadcast announcement around 7 am that they are working on clearance.

The ship came from NZ with no cases of coronavirus and the only problem we had was a mild norovirus outbreak( less than 2% - so will not show up on the CDC website).