Last Week but still not good.

[roger001]

I may have slept through this already.  From last week.  If so, scroll on.  But....just doesn't look good for anything soon.   

 

Eight passengers who sailed on Costa Cruises' Costa Diadema have tested positive for COVID-19, Roger Frizzell, spokesperson for Carnival Corp., the parent company to Costa, confirmed to USA TODAY Friday. The cruise ship, which continued on its journey carrying all French passengers, will cut its voyage short as France has reinstated its state of health emergency in relation to COVID-19. 

Costa Diadema, which was chartered by a French company and had all French passengers, departed from Genoa on Sept. 28 and ended its journey on Oct. 12. It then departed on a second 14-day voyage with many of the same passengers on board Oct. 12 and returned to Genoa on Friday 10 days earlier than intended.

On Oct. 10, seven passengers from the first sailing disembarked in Palermo after testing positive for COVID-19.

 

"All guests were tested and required to be negative to board," Frizzell said. "Following excursions in Greek islands, (they were) tested again before returning to Italy, and seven preliminarily tested positive." As part of the cruise line's coronavirus protocols, passengers are required to be tested if they leave the country of the ship's origin and return to that country in accordance with Italian law.

 

 

After the news of the positive tests came and the passengers disembarked, they were retested in facilities in Palermo. "(They) were isolated and immediately disembarked in dedicated onshore facilities in Palermo in agreement with Italian health authorities, per protocol," Frizzell said.

A third test on shore was also positive for all seven, who were asymptomatic.

The first sailing continued on as planned after disembarking the affected passengers in Palermo and made excursions, including stops in Sardinia and Civitavecchia near Rome, before wrapping up its voyage and then departing for the second voyage Oct. 12.

[Formula280SS]

There is updated information on the Costa CruiseCritic forum.

 

[shof515]

this is the result of false test results, the same problem that exists pretty much everywhere now

[roger001]

Yea.  Going to definitely need better testing than that.  

[casofilia]

There are so many ways that a test does not tell with absolute accuracy the actual situation.      Better to wait a while yet before we start cruising again.

[BirdTravels]

And by waiting, what will change? The same tests will exist. Giving the same type of real and fake results.