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Corona outbreak on Tui ship: Affected cruise passengers must stay in Gran Canaria

2021-02-11T14:19:16.111Z


A corona outbreak occurred on a Tui cruise ship: four passengers tested positive, others also had to go into quarantine.


A corona outbreak occurred on a Tui cruise ship: four passengers tested positive, others also had to go into quarantine.

After

four positive corona cases on board the cruise ship "Mein Schiff 2"

, several passengers and crew members are in quarantine on Gran Canaria.

The guests had tested positive for Covid-19 at the end of the trip last week, said a spokeswoman for the Tui Cruises * shipping company on Tuesday for the German Press Agency in Hamburg.

"The four people were immediately isolated on board and taken to quarantine accommodation on land."

Cruise with Tui: Corona infected people and contact persons must stay in Gran Canaria

In addition,

nine guests and eleven employees were identified as contact persons

, were also initially isolated on board and then accommodated accordingly on Gran Canaria - despite negative test results.

The guests would continue to be looked after by Tui Cruises, the accommodation costs of the contact persons would be covered by the shipping company, those who tested positive will be covered by the international travel insurance, according to the information.

The passengers have so far had no or only mild symptoms.

All the other 1,000 or so guests had tested negative for the corona virus and were able to travel home on Friday as planned.

The 800 employees of the ship also remained without a positive corona test.

"The cruise operation could already continue in consultation with the authorities." The ship had previously been cleaned and disinfected.

Also interesting

: the first cruise line requires travelers to be vaccinated against corona.

Coronavirus does not spread any further on cruise ships - passenger dissatisfied

Tui sees the incident as proof that the hygiene concept works - the

virus was unable to spread further on board

.

According to RP Online, an affected passenger who is now in quarantine sees things a little differently: "Of course I knew that there was a certain risk on a cruise," he says.

“But the Tui Cruises concept convinced me beforehand.

How it will be implemented in practice, however, is not completely certain - as you can see from the result. ”You are forced to be in contact with people at the pool, in the restaurant or on the stairs.

In addition, according to his statements, individual passengers were allowed to leave the ship to shop in a pharmacy on land - although the regulations would not allow this.



Tui Cruises is currently going to the Canary Islands and

only

takes

a maximum of around 60 percent of the usual guests

on board, so that the distance rules can be observed.

NDR had previously reported 90.3.

(fk / dpa) * Merkur.de is part of the nationwide Ippen-Digital editorial network.

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