About 3,000 passengers a cruise ship, mostly Germans, landed today, Monday, in Lisbon, instead of continuing their journey to the Canary Islands, as many cases were identified between them coronavirus, according to AFP.
The first passengers, who tested negative, began to disembark at dawn today and were taken by bus to Lisbon airport to return to their home countries, said Diogo Vieira Branco, head of the capital’s port authority. Portugal.
The cruise ship evacuation operation AIDAnova is expected to be completed late this afternoon, APE reports.
The ship, which docked Wednesday in Lisbon, bound for La Coru ,a in northwestern Spain, was carrying 2.844 passengers and 1.353 crew members. According to his plan, he would continue to Madeira and then to the Canary Islands. However, after the first cases were identified, the company AIDA Cruises decided to stop the cruise, in order to “ensure the safety and health of the passengers and the crew”.
No replacement crew found – Dozens caught the virus
In total, 68 people tested positive for Covid-19 and 60 of them were crew members.
“They tried to find replacements for the crew members and they did not find it. “Therefore, we had no chance of sailing,” a passenger told AFP Gum Lingnau.
Those who were found to be positive are asymptomatic or have very mild symptoms and were quarantined in city hotels.
All passengers over 12 years old and crew were vaccinated and had been submitted twice to test before boarding the cruise ship, the company clarified.
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