A group of 103 Americans on a cruise ship stranded off the Brazil coast because of the coronavirus pandemic finally headed home Sunday.
After 10 days of being stranded on a cruise ship off the coast of Brazil as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, 103 U.S. citizens and two permanent residents were finally evacuated Sunday afternoon and flown to Dallas.
Brazilian officials said all the passengers quarantined on the ship tested negative for coronavirus and had their temperatures taken twice daily. It was then that a 78-year-old Canadian man fell ill, and and tested positive for the virus, along with his 60-year-old wife. Other passengers were immediately forbidden to leave their rooms.with questions about what would happen to their loved ones. “They are going out of their minds and we are so worried,” one man wrote.
On Sunday, the Americans were taken from the ship to a chartered bus bound for the airport. After additional delays, the flight took off.
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