More than 3,800 passengers on a cruise ship disembarked in Miami without screening for COVID-19, despite a previous traveler testing positive days earlier
"When I say there was no check, there was none whatsoever," one passenger told the Herald. "I expected us to have some kind of a screening. They didn't do a single thing. We walked straight off the ship. There wasn't any check on anyone for anything."
MSC told the Herald it "followed all protocols as required" and had been cleared to dock and disembark as normal by US health authorities. More than 3,800 passengers disembarked Sunday a cruise ship from Miami without undergoing any medical screening or tests, despite the ship recently having a COVID-19 patient aboard about a week beforehand. that the previous passenger had departed the ship after an eight-day cruise aboard the MSC Meraviglia.
Unlike other cruises with coronavirus concerns, the MSC Meraviglia wasn't held offshore to test passengers and crew. Instead, the cruise docked and disembarked normally on Sunday, with clearance from US health authorities, according to the Herald.
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