Coronavirus outbreak on first Caribbean cruise since pandemic began

during his first sea voyage, after all have been suspended due to the arrival of the pandemic, the SeaDream 1 of the fleet SeaDream Yacht Club took its facilities passengers infected with Covid-19. In principle, it was a single isolated case.

Quickly, the infected have become five and alarms in the Caribe alight.

After spending several days since the start of the exciting tour, Wednesday November 11th the first positive case was detected on board, as confirmed by a blog reporter The points guy.

Once they got a feel for what was going on, the ship’s captain warned all passengers on board through the ship’s megaphone. Then each of the crew members “suggested” that they will immediately isolate themselves in their cabins.

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As the morning newspaper found it The Miami Herald, the information was later broadcast via social networks by the content creators of the “Ben and David” YouTube platform. Internet users, who have 75,900 subscribers on their channel, they are regulars on cruise adventures and are often filmed on all kinds of trips they take.

The two characters recognized in their Twitter social network profiles: “We are fine and the crew is doing their best to resolve the situation, we feel very confident and well cared for. It is an unfortunate situation ”. Even so, they are not sure how to proceed now, which makes them somewhat anxious.

The vessel in which the unfortunate incident took place has the capacity to 110 people, 53 travelers Yes 66 team members. As this was the maiden voyage since social distancing was enacted, various travel influencers were on board.

Passengers do not plan to pick up the pace of travel before covid

The travel itinerary included visits to San Vicente and Granada. However, with the ship anchored off the Caribbean territory of the Grenadines, and after the announcement he had to go back to Barbados, an island located in the eastern Caribbean.

As the Caribbean region It is not one of the areas most affected by the coronavirus in the world, the opening of borders in countries like Jamaica O Bahamas, in order to increase tourist activity, a dramatic increase in the number of infections.

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