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Carnival Freedom cruise ship docks in Miami and becomes the third to return with Covid-19 positives

December 26, 2021

Photo: KAREN BLEIER / AFP / Getty Images

For: EFE Updated 26 Dec 2020, 19: 01 pm EST

The cruise ship Carnival Freedom returned to Miami this Sunday after an undetermined group of passengers tested positive for Covid – 19 , so it was unable to dock in the Caribbean islands of Boanire and Aruba.

The Carnival Freedom, third cruise ship to depart from Miami and report Covid cases – 19 aboard in recent days, departed from this South Florida city on 18 December and stopped in Curacao last Tuesday.

His planned stops in the Caribbean islands of Bonaire, on Wednesday, and Aruba, on Thursday, were canceled, although he was allowed to dock in the Dominican Republic on Friday, Christmas Eve.

Carnival Freedom, Odyssey of the Seas return to South Florida ports after reporting COVID cases – WSVN 7News | Miami News, Weather, Sports https://t.co/kJ1pUv9qTn

— abhay kumar (@ jeguru1) December 27, 2021

The number of infected passengers has not been specified so far. The ship docked in Port Miami today with 2, 497 passengers and 1, 112 crew on board , according to local television 04.

Passengers received a letter of apology from the cruise captain informing them that they will receive a credit of 100 dollars per room and a free bingo game, detailed the same medium.

“The rapid spread of the Omicron variant affects the way destinations respond to even a small number of cases “, wrote the ship’s captain in the letter dated 26 December.

A passenger, Ashley Peterson, wrote on his Twitter account today:

“Just a hallway full of Covid patients at the @CarnivalC ruise. But Carnival wants to stick to the ‘small number’ lie they keep telling. There are likely to be more than that more will test positive in the coming days “, he speculated.

Passengers were covid tested before boarding. Crew isn’t on the same covid testing schedule. The reason we were delayed into Curaçao was due to an outbreak with the CREW. After that is when passengers were testing positive.

– Ashley Gets Around (@ashleygetsround) December 27, 2021

Last Thursday, Royal Caribbean noted that a total of 55 passengers and crew members of the Odyssey of the Seas , who sailed the previous Saturday from a port in Fort Lauderdale, tested positive for the disease during an eight-day cruise and in which the 95% of people on board had the “complete vaccination schedule”.

The announcement came less than a week after this company reported that 48 people of the ship Symphony of the Seas , designated as the largest cruise ship in the world, will test positive Covid s – 19 upon his return to the Port of Miami after a week-long journey in the Caribbean.

Cruises are one of the sectors most affected by the pandemic in the United States. Given the number of infections registered on board these ships, for more than a year they could not sail from the country’s ports, which caused millions in losses to shipping companies.

Florida broke this Saturday for the second consecutive day his own record of daily cases when adding this Christmas day 32, 850, as reported by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) of the United States.

According to the CDC, the Omicron variant has already been converted in the predominant one in the United States , since among the past 12 Y 18 of December meant the 73, 2% of new cases.

The United States continues to be one of the countries hardest hit by the Covid pandemic – 19 more than 816, 000 deceased and 52, 95, 000 of infections since March of 2020, indicates the Johns Hopkins University count.

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