The positive cases were among 26 crew members and one passenger on the Carnival Vista, which is carrying over 1,400 crew and nearly 3,000 passengers, the board said in a statement. The ship arrived Wednesday in Belize City.
All 27 were vaccinated, had mild or no symptoms, and were in isolation, according to the statement. The tourism board said 99.98% of the ship's crew was vaccinated, as well as 96.5% of its passengers.The Washington Post reported Carnival said it announced last week that there were positive cases on board, but the cruise line did not not give specific numbers. The ship left from Galveston, Texas, according to the Post.
Carnival is requiring passengers to be vaccinated, though there are exceptions for children and people with medical issues. The cruise line said in a statement Aug. 4 that passengers must wear a mask in certain indoor areas, and provide a negative COVID test within three days of embarkment for cruises beginning Aug. 14.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on its website that it had investigated the Carnival Vista and the ship remains under observation.A crew member checks docking ropes from the inside of Carnival's Mardi Gras cruise ship, docked in the bay of San Juan, Puerto Rico, Tuesday, Aug. 3, 2021, marking the first time a cruise ship visits the U.S. territory since the COVID-19 pandemic began.
What happens to those affected? Leave the ship? Quarantine? Hotel costs? Flight home costs? Who pays?
Yikes and you have to be double vaxxed to get on in the first place. One might ask is this vaccine helping?
floating petri dishes of Norovirus E coli Campylobacter And Now Covid! What will you be having?
27 people aboard Carnival cruise test positive for COVID-19 and are reporting mild or no symptoms - there I fixed it. Do better CTV.
🤣🤣🤣🤣 idiots
Who the fuck is going on a cruise?
And how many have been vaccinated
Cruise ships have to be the greasiest thing ever
Unbelievable people are still that dumb to get on a cruise even pre pandemic.
You’d think people would remember
Oh no 😬
Hey guess what i caught the flu after getting a flu shot. You want a full interview?
But how?
Send them back to Desantos Florida as there is lots of the same there.
Yeah... fully vax... no to mild symptoms... 26 were crew... 4400 people on board... VaccinesWork Move on!
27 people really enjoying their two dose summer
Still going to find a way to blame the unvaccinated i guess
everyone can get the viruses, it’s about spreading it when you return.
Gee. Didn’t see this coming at all. It’s not like a cruise ship is a Petri dish of disease waiting to happen.
SanctionPakisan
Of course they did lol WTF
Every one of these people is fully vaccinated so the conspiracy theorists were right after all. We don’t take drugs from people who talk about depopulation.
It’s like Groundhog Day. Here we go again.
Okay, and? 'All 27 were vaccinated [and] had mild or no symptoms. . . .' Cases are inevitable. This isn't newsworthy.
How many are fully vaccinated? Doesn’t fit the narrative right?
The PCR test has been validated as medical fraud so cases mean shit. Stop spreading misinformation or face the consequences of being a Nazi