CDC ditches COVID rules for all cruise ships
(CNS): The US Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has lifted its COVID-19 voluntary restriction programme for cruise ships, ending all official controls in relation to the virus. The CDC will continue to publish guidance to help ships provide a safe and healthy environment for passengers and crew, but requirements for masks, testing and vaccinations have all been formally dropped.
Cruise lines will still need to report confirmed cases but the CDC will no longer publish the colour-coded chart detailing the spread on ships on its website.
However, the CDC noted that the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 spreads easily between people in close quarters on board ships so operators should still carefully consider CDC recommendations when developing their own health and safety protocols.
“CDC has worked closely with the cruise industry, state, territorial, and local health authorities, and federal and seaport partners to provide a safer and healthier environment for cruise passengers and crew,” it said on the website. “Cruise ships have access to guidance and tools to manage their own COVID-19 mitigation programs.”
Most cruise lines still require their passengers to be vaccinated but most are now likely to drop all testing requirements.
The end of cruising restrictions comes as COVID restrictions are lifted worldwide, with some notable exceptions. Nevertheless, the virus continues to mutate and spread, fueling a recent surge in some countries.
People in the Cayman Islands are still required to officially report a positive home test or seek a PCR if they have symptoms, but the significant decline in the number of people taking PCR tests indicates that this is not always happening.
According to the most recent figures, there are 735 active cases but just ten people were reported as positive via official PCR testing. On 20 July, eleven COVID-positive patients were being treated in hospital.
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So does this mean that an American tourist can come to Cayman without being vaccinated, but a resident of Cayman who is not vaccinated cannot go to the USA?
Barred by choice/stupidity is irrelevant.
If you cannot see the inequity of the equation then your lack of understanding renders you irrelevant to the question itself.
Is this an ineptly worded effort at ‘cancelling’? Sure looks like it.
By this joker’s logic, if there is a difference in treatment then failing to agree with joker that the difference is wrong makes your view irrelevant.
I can see the difference, I did see the difference, but if losers do not want the jab that is their problem.
PACT should start signalling now the they are shutting down Travel Time by the end of August. Sorry CAL, time’s up on that ridiculous transfer payment scheme. CAL should be getting those fancy planes in the air and making those public-owned assets sweat. Run some trial charters to Panama, Costa Rica, Mexican Riviera, or CDMX…something productive and interesting please.
Hopefully, airlines are next.
That’s OK – Cayman abandoned all Covid restrictions on cruise ships ages ago!
What a load of B. S. Ppl not wanting to get jobs is what causing place in the us to close no staff as too many enjoyed staying home and getting paid. GOV HAND OUTS KILLED AMERICAN JOBS… Covid spike are all over but ita not whats making place cloae or dont function. I have been living in Fl last 6 months and its a joke how many place are in need of staff.
“The next Covid wave is going to be HUGE with the cruise ships of doom. Covid is raging in the states again, shutting down businesses due to staff shortages across the country and hospitalizations are rapidly increasing.
Maybe we will get lucky and have monkeypox too! The director of America’s HHS called Monkeypox a pamdemic this week.
Long covid cases will grow here, too.
The cool zone is upon us. Enjoy!”
Bullshit. Turn off Fox News
You won’t find any of that on Fox, troll. Try MSNBC.
go find a cave to live in….
Yup! Everyone can have fun playing dodge-ball with the SARS-CoV-2 virus.
Number of Americans in ICU with COVID-19 reaches 5,000, highest since March. This as hospitals across the states face nursing and staffing shortages.
The numbers increase daily in America and Japan. Its coming.
Stop traveling to the US and then returning to visit your families without self quarantine. There is a better chance you will bring covid home than you will catch it from a cruiser.
Better chance you will take Covid to the US then return with it!
Yeah, right
U.S. COVID update: Nearly 230,000 new cases
– New cases: 227,983
– Average: 132,691 (+8,142)
– States reporting: 34/50
– In hospital: 44,359 (+824)
– In ICU: 4,955 (+126)
– New deaths: 714
– Average: 432 (+65)
Note this data is only from 34 of the 50 states.
The next Covid wave is going to be HUGE with the cruise ships of doom. Covid is raging in the states again, shutting down businesses due to staff shortages across the country and hospitalizations are rapidly increasing.
Maybe we will get lucky and have monkeypox too! The director of America’s HHS called Monkeypox a pamdemic this week.
Long covid cases will grow here, too.
The cool zone is upon us. Enjoy!
Take a xanax.
Wear a mask and wash your hands
My body my choice.
Yup. Naomi Judd said the same thing on April 30th.
What is this ridiculous obsession with preventing any and all sense of fear during a raging pandemic and calamitous climate change? Your ancestors going back a few hundred million years experienced fear and it’s one reason they survived and you exist.