The Jewel of the Seas simply ended its summer season season crusing out of Cyprus with extra disappointing COVID-19 take a look at outcomes. 13 individuals (9 friends and 4 crew members) examined constructive for the virus on the finish of final week. That is along with the fifty passengers on this cruise ship who examined constructive within the prior thity day interval, as we reported on October 23, 2021.
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Earlier final week, a household of 4 on the ship was the topic of discussions betwen ship administration and port authroties in one of many ports of name, Chania, after three of the members of the family examined constructive for COVID-19. The mom and two of the couple’s minor youngsters examined constructive (the daddy was thought-about to be an in depth contact). The ship ordered the household, which had been staying in two staterooms, into isolation. The preliminary plans had been for the household to be disembarked within the port in Chania (in Crete, Greece). The Greek authorities nixed the plan to ship them ashore and the household remained in isolation till the ship returned to the house port in Limassol.
Along with these three constructive friends, six extra passengers examined constructive for COVID-19. Along with these 9 friends, 4 crew members examined constructive for COVID-19 as effectively.
The friends who examined constructive had been taken by ambulance to villas in Limassol the place they are going to be anticipated to stay in isolation.
The Jewel of the Seas is now crusing throughout the Mediteranean Sea to Gibraltar earlier than begining its 
voyage throughout the Atlantic Ocean to Miami the place it’s scheduled to reach on November 14th after which sail on a five-day Western Caribbean cruise on November fifteenth.
It’s anticipated that the U.S. Facilities for Illness Management and Prvention (CDC) will designate the ship as falling underneath both yellow or orange color codes given the truth that the ship has rountinely skilled wherever from just a few to over twently constructive COVID-19 instances per cruise for the previous two months,
As of right this moment’s date, there are a minimum of six Royal Caribbean-operated cruise ships (the Attract of the Seas, Independence of the Seas, Liberty of the Seas, Mariner of the Seas, Serenade of the Seas and Symphony of the Seas) which the CDC is both at the moment monitoring or investigating COVID-19 outbreaks.
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