Gavin Newsom said it could take three days or longer to get passengers off the Grand Princess, which will dock Monday in Oakland to disembark all passengers and those who need medical attention, including 19 infected crew members.
Many Californians on board will eventually be sent to two California military bases.
After medical cases, California residents would be prioritized for disembarkation, and be taken to Travis Air Force base in nearby Solano County to begin a 14-day quarantine.It is the same base where passengers from the Diamond Princess were recently held after that ship had an outbreak of the virus, and where there has been suspected community spread of COVID-19.
Newsom said 12 positive cases of COVID-19 had been identified in passengers on the previous cruise, which went from San Francisco to Mexico, and included a Placer County man who later died of the virus. The cruise line and California health officials have disagreed on whether the man contracted the illness on board or was infected prior to the journey.Crew will be quarantined on board, with the ship leaving the Oakland port.
“We simply, as a state, cannot experience this kind of operation at the scale that is likely,” if cruise ships don’t take more precautions, Newsom said.
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