The Coast Guard has informed governors of states with ports that can receive cruise ships that those vessels with passengers possibly infected with COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, must stay at-sea “indefinitely,” ABC News reports.
The cruise industry has been effectively idled by the global pandemic, with vessels lined up in port cities, such as Miami, inhabited only by their crew. However, a few remain at-sea. For example, Carnival, which operates 105 vessels across 9 cruise lines, still has 6,000 passengers on board three vessels. One is scheduled to arrive in Fort Civitavecchia, Italy; another in Southampton, England; and another in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
At least one ship belonging to the Carnival Corporation, the Holland America cruise ships Zaandam, is carrying the bodies of passengers that are believed to have died of COVID-19. Another Carnival vessel, Coral Princess, is carrying passengers in its medical center with “flu-like symptoms.”
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