Italian tourists still targeted by foreign countries for Coronavirus risk: docking on the Costa Fortuna cruise ship with 173 compatriots on board, all in good health, was prohibited in Phuket, Thailand. In particular, 64 passengers are under observation, those who have spent the last two weeks in Italy.
Fear instead returned to Naples where another motor ship, the Majestic of the Gnv company, with 125 people on board between crew and workers, has been anchored for a couple of days in the port of the Neapolitan capital. On board there are nine sailors who came into contact with a Tunisian colleague who tested positive for the virus during a trip between Genoa and Tunis. Health authorities checked them to rule out the presence of symptoms from Covid 19. However, they were subjected to isolation as a precaution for the next ten days. Free health offices, however, for the more than 100 crew members who will be able to leave the ship. "The nine crew members of the Gnv Majestic are fine, have no symptoms, are only in precautionary isolation," says Antonio Salzano, head of the Maritime Health Office in Naples. "They have no symptoms and we haven't swabbed him at the moment. We put them in isolation as a precaution." For the ship - it is specified by the shipping company, the Gnv based in Genoa - the stop in Naples was already planned to allow ordinary maintenance works. This is why we cannot technically speak of blocking.
Costa Crociere recalls that even on the Mediterranean coast which has been prevented from Madagascar by the planned stopover in Nosy Be and is sailing to the Seychelles islands , "there are no suspicious cases between passengers and crew members". Thailand has imposed restrictions due to the coronavirus on the landing of Italians who have been in our country in the past 14 days. The ship has left for Malaysia. In a known Costa Crociere she says she is sorry for the sudden change of itinerary and confirms that the safety of her guests and crew members is an absolute priority.
The ships confirm possible outbreaks of the virus: the Egyptian authorities have announced that they have identified 12 cases of coronavirus among people (all Egyptians) on board one of the ships that carry out cruises on the Nile .
In the meantime, the transfer of the 65 members of the crew of the Gnv Rhapsody motor ship has begun in Liguria, who have been in compulsory trustee isolation on board for a few days. The seafarers will go to two Genoese structures identified by the Civil Protection and the Health Task Force for the Coronavirus emergency.
Meanwhile, the Government of Malta has denied docking to an MSC Opera cruise ship with two thousand passengers on board. The Times of Malta reports. The Maltese authorities have denied authorization following a public protest over fears of coronavirus infection after the alarm launched by a local media on a former Austrian passenger who landed in recent days and subsequently found positive at Covid-19. For Mcs, who decided to change the itinerary, "the verification of the ship's medical documents by the Maltese authorities" confirmed the absence of cases on board.
