They were to visit Rome, they stayed at the quay. The passengers of the cruise ship Costa Smeralda were confined to their ship in order to carry out tests on a possible case of coronavirus.
Some 7,000 people must have lived on the boat worried about possible contamination. "They (the skippers) had known since the previous evening that people were in solitary confinement," says Laurence Fabrizi, passenger on the ship on her first cruise. They didn't tell us right away that it was for the coronavirus. "
But despite the fears, the Costa Smeralda did not give in to panic. “We have the sun, we have the SPA, we have food and drink. We have nothing to complain about, ”prefers to posit Laurence Fabrizi. And the first tests can only reassure her. They are all negative at 2019-nCov.