This morning the Jewel of the Seas returned to the ship’s dwelling port of Limassol, Cyprus after a one week cruise across the Greek Isles. Yesterday, the ship carried out a routine check for the COVID-19 virus of the entire 1,100 or so visitors on the ship. In response to a crew member on the cruise ship who needs to proceed to stay nameless, eleven passengers examined optimistic for the virus.
Along with these visitors, the entire workforce (9) of the ship’s dancers are beneath quarantine on board.
Eleven (11) Friends Check Constructive on Jewel of the Seas for #COVID19, Bringing Complete to at Least Fifty (50) in Final Thirty Days https://t.co/nU5HEZVR0j @RoyalCaribbean #JeweloftheSeas #cruise ship. pic.twitter.com/TOFlUrfsuq
— James (Jim) Walker (@CruiseLaw) October 23, 2021
Within the final thirty days, we’ve got realized that there have been a complete of round fifty optimistic COVID-19 circumstances of passengers on this similar cruise ship. Extra particularly, on the cruise which departed from Limassol on September twenty fifth, we reported that there was a complete of twenty-one cases involving guests on the Royal Caribbean ship.
On October 2nd, we reported that there have been twelve guests who tested positive on the subsequent cruise on the Jewel.
There have been a minimum of a handful of optimistic circumstances involving visitors on every cruise on this ship this summer time. The full doesn’t embody the variety of crew members who examined optimistic for the virus over the previous month.
Royal Caribbean is constant to take aggressive steps to try to scale back the variety of COVID-19 circumstances involving its crew members and visitors on this ship after experiencing a better than regular variety of optimistic virus circumstances within the final a number of weeks.
Eighty p.c of visitors on the ship have been from UK which continues to be experiencing a excessive variety of COVID-19 outbreaks. BBC Information lately printed an article titled Covid: Why are UK cases so high? which defined that COVID-19 circumstances within the U.Ok. have soared to to greater than 50,000 circumstances a day, though it’s much less doubtless that the contaminated will find yourself within the hospital or die.
The Jewel of the Seas shall be re-positioned in mid-November to South Florida the place it is going to be crusing on a Western Caribbean itinerary of cruises from 5 to 10 days lengthy. The ship will sail from Miami till mid-Might of 2022 when it is going to be repositioned and sail from Amsterdam. The corporate clearly needs to scale back the variety of optimistic virus circumstances it has been experiencing earlier than it begins crusing out of U.S. waters the place it is going to fall throughout the jurisdiction of the Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention (CDC).
There have been various sailings of Royal Caribbean crusie ships the place a minimum of a dozen or extra passengers and crew turned contaminated with COVID-19. Ten days in the past, we reported that fifteen crew members on the Allure of the Seas tested positive for COVID-19.
Two days in the past, a crew member on Royal Caribbean’s Spectrum of the Seas examined optimistic after a number of assessments. The ship wa scheduled to depart from Hong Kong however the native well being division intervened and prohibited the ship from leaving port. A number of 1000’s of visitors needed to depart the ship and the cruise was cancelled.
One RCCL crew member assessments optimistic. Spectrum of the Seas’ cruise scheduled for yesterday canceled. Evaluate that to the fifteen RCCL crew members on the Attract of the Seas who examined optimistic for COVID-19 ten days in the past. Ship nonetheless sailed. https://t.co/xZ3daf8xba pic.twitter.com/2gr8gcbegS
— James (Jim) Walker (@CruiseLaw) October 22, 2021
Royal Caribbean, like most cruise strains, doesn’t voluntarily disclose the variety of visitors and crew members who’re contaminated throughout cruises on its ships, althought this fundamental data is important to understanding the danger of an infection which a client encounters whereas cruising.
This afternoon the Jewel of the Seas set sail with roughly 1,200 visitors on one other week-long cruise across the Greek Isles.
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October 26, 2021 Replace: A visitor on the Jewel of the Seas commented on Twitter that he was “extraordinarily disenchanted with the usual of leisure on Jewel of the Seas this week” and that Royal Caribbean had the “audacity to indicate a film within the theatre . . . ” It seems that the quarantine of the ship’s dancers is having an impact on the kind of leisure which the ship is ready to supply its visitors?
Maybe the truth that the entire #cruise ship’s dancers had been quarantined for #COVID19 had one thing to do with this? / @RoyalCaribbean Jewel of the Seas https://t.co/JygcsiJ6WO
— James (Jim) Walker (@CruiseLaw) October 26, 2021
Picture credit score: Jewel of the Seas – Royal Caribbean
