Thousands of Royal Caribbean passengers are in limbo after a COVID outbreak tied to flight attendants who broke quarantine regulations. Now an entire city is grounded, too
Remember back in 2020 at the start of the pandemic when the Diamond Princess taught the world everything they never wanted to know about contagion as the then-novel coronavirus tore through the massive cruise ship, infecting 712 out of the 3,711 passengers?
The ship, which disembarked last Sunday on a “cruise to nowhere”— meaning it wouldn’t make any port calls to avoid contracting COVID-19—had to return to Hong Kong a day early because of fears that the highly contagious variant would spread. A 28-year-old flight attendant who tested positive for COVID-19 and then was identified as having the Omicron variant, danced with a passenger last weekend who then boarded the ship Sunday. The passenger’s household staff member separately tested positive for the virus, according to the, making him doubly contagious. He and eight others with whom he spent time on the cruise are in isolation waiting for PCR tests.
All 20 people who were part of the flight attendant’s entourage reportedly partied in Victoria Park and Causeway Bay. A 48-year-old woman who had joined the group as a hanger-on was the first to test positive. The flight attendants were not supposed to leave isolation until they took COVID tests but instead left and took the test the morning after, which is when the infections were discovered and which, of course, was by then too late.
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