Tag: Princess Cruises
Princess deals another blow to cruise ports
(CNS): Princess Cruises issued a statement Thursday morning that it was cancelling all of its cruises around the world until 10 May in the face of the global outbreak of COVID-19, a move that will further batter the Cayman Islands’ short-term, and possibly long-term, tourism outlook. At the public meeting on the coronavirus situation Tuesday […]
Sick cruisers don’t have COVID-19, officials say
(CNS) UPDATED: After news from government Monday morning that a cruise ship had anchored in George Town to offload two critically ill patients with issues that appear unrelated to the COVID-19 outbreak, so they could be airlifted to the US, it has now said one of those patients has stayed in Cayman. The person who […]
Cruises disrupted by disease outbreak
(CNS): While one of Princess Cruise Line’s ships is stuck in quarantine at the Japanese port of Yokohama following an outbreak of the novel coronavirus on board, another ship in its fleet is heading back to the US, having been denied entry into Trinidad and Tobago after more than 350 passengers began suffering with a […]
Thousands of cruise ship passengers quarantined
(CNS): The outbreak the novel coronavus (2019-nCoV) continues to significantly affect the cruise ship industry. In the port city of Yokohama, Japan, the number of confirmed cases on board the Diamond Princess, owned by Princess Cruises, jumped from from 70 to 130 Monday, giving the ship the highest concentration of coronavirus cases outside of China.
