'Contaminated' cruises, MSC Opera in Genoa, one deceased

The crew member of the cruise ship Msc Opera who had been hospitalized because of coronavirus died. Death at the Galliera hospital in Genoa. The ship, declared 'contaminated', has been in port in Genoa for days with only the crew, with 4 positive members at Covid-19.

Three passengers from another cruise ship, brought to a hotel in Rome, tested positive. There were 229 on the ship. One is hospitalized.

Change of destination for the 49 positive seafarers at Covid 19 who are on board the Costa Luminosa , the cruise ship that has been in port in Savona for days. They will go to a municipality in the province of Florence. This was revealed by the Regional Councilor for Civil Protection of Liguria Giacomo Giampedrone. "They will leave tonight with a protected transport," said the councilor thanking Tuscany.

The Tuscany Region "has given the availability to the docking of the Costa Diadema ship at the port of Piombino (Livorno)" where "passengers and crew will remain on the ship until the time of repatriation or return to their homes". Thus the Tuscany Region itself makes known some modalities, due for the coronavirus emergency, in relation to the arrival and permanence in the port of the cruise ship for the time necessary according to the sanitary provisions.