In a normal year Sydney can hardly cram enough cruise ships into its harbour. Not any longer
IN A NORMAL year Sydney can hardly cram enough cruise ships into its harbour. Australians are among the world’s most enthusiastic maritime tourists and the city’s famous Circular Quay doubles as a watery parking lot. Not any longer. Australia, like several other countries fearful of contagion, wants to cut them adrift. “New South Wales is not a safe haven for every cruise ship,” the state’s police chief, Mick Fuller, grumbled recently.
A criminal investigation into her docking is now under way. State and federal authorities point the finger at each other for failing to conduct the proper health checks. The “key question”, according to Mr Fuller, is whether Carnival was “transparent” in “contextualising the true patient and crew health conditions”. Some cruise companies have been lying about the health of those aboard their ships, says Peter Dutton, the home-affairs minister, who is recovering from the virus himself.
For some that seems impossible, and not just because they are registered in faraway places like Panama or the Bahamas. The, which had been idling off New South Wales since her passengers disembarked, is stricken. More than 200 of her 1,400-strong crew are showing symptoms of covid-19. She has been allowed to berth at a port south of Sydney so that doctors can tend to them. Some of her most vulnerable patients have been sent to Australian hospitals., has stolidly ignored marching orders.
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