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Suspected Covid-19 case on Royal Caribbean cruise to nowhere, ship returns to Singapore mid-sail

 

Journalist Clara Lock on Royal Caribbean’s Quantum of the Seas, which returned to Singapore mid-sail on Dec 9, 2020.ST PHOTO: GIN TAY

Clara Lock

Travel Correspondent

Published

12 min ago

Royal Caribbean cruise ship Quantum of the Seas has turned back on day three of a four-day cruise to nowhere due to a suspected Covid-19 case on board. 

The ship’s captain made an announcement over the public announcement system at about 2.45am, informing guests to remain in their rooms and adding that the ship would arrive in Singapore by about 8am.

Royal Caribbean last week resumed three and four night Ocean Getaway cruises as part of a safe cruising pilot programme announced in October by the Singapore Tourism Board.

Pandemic safety measures include a reduced 50 per cent capacity and pre-boarding testing for passengers.

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Who will pay for the SHN or Quarantine if the passengers need to isolate? Hope the costs will not be pushed to the taxpayer. After all, these cruise passengers knowingly chose to go for the cruise. 

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13 minutes ago, Flying_genie said:

Who will pay for the SHN or Quarantine if the passengers need to isolate? Hope the costs will not be pushed to the taxpayer. After all, these cruise passengers knowingly chose to go for the cruise. 

They can stay on the ship for quarantine for all i care..

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6 minutes ago, Ody_2004 said:

Errr.. can they disembark? 

you can go to the cruise centre to see, they should be arriving now [laugh]

 

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8 minutes ago, Jman888 said:

you can go to the cruise centre to see, they should be arriving now [laugh]

 

whahahahhahahaha.. actually my work place very near there lah.. 

but timing not right.. 

RCL use antigen test right? not the zhun PCR tio boh.. so hope is a false reading.. if not the subsequent cruise doubt can proceed..

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According to a live call made with one of the passenger on board the cruise, there is a confirmed case on the cruise, and first announcement was made at 2:45am in the mid night. 

All passengers are currently kept on the cruise, till further instructions from the relevant authorities. Each cabin is given 4x 1.5L of mineral water, and food will be delivered to the doorstep. Another "prison" in the making... 

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wah, Diamond Princess part 2 ?

if the protocols require that all passengers not be allowed to disembark, then do dare to go in future ?

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24 minutes ago, Carbon82 said:

According to a live call with one of the passenger on board the cruise, there is a confirmed case on the cruise, and first announcement was made at 2:45am in the mid night. 

All passengers are currently kept on the cruise, till further instructions from the relevant authorities. Each cabin is given 4x 1.5L of mineral water, and food will be delivered to the doorstep. Another "prison" in the making... 

Actually keeping them on the cruise ship would do more to promote the spread of infection among the rest, wouldn't it? From past experience. The air circulation system, air con, sewerage, etc. running from cabin to cabin, no matter how well it is filtered as they claim, we saw what happen on cruise ships previously.

Better to disembark the passengers and SHN/QO them on land, better still, in hotel, where their movements can be monitored.

Who in the right mind would go for cruise now anyway ? [laugh] Or flights to nowhere for that matter.

But I believe govt allows this as a kind of test-bed, similar to allowing some pubs/bars to slowly reopen and events to re-start. It's to test capabilities in detection, tracing and fencing-in of infection. In the longer-term, ability to control the spread of infection is more important than vaccines (which may still take time, efficacy in doubt, and only specific to covid-19 not future pandemic)

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12 minutes ago, Sosaria said:

Actually keeping them on the cruise ship would do more to promote the spread of infection among the rest, wouldn't it? From past experience. The air circulation system, air con, sewerage, etc. running from cabin to cabin, no matter how well it is filtered as they claim, we saw what happen on cruise ships previously.

Better to disembark the passengers and SHN/QO them on land, better still, in hotel, where their movements can be monitored.

Who in the right mind would go for cruise now anyway ? [laugh] Or flights to nowhere for that matter.

But I believe govt allows this as a kind of test-bed, similar to allowing some pubs/bars to slowly reopen and events to re-start. It's to test capabilities in detection, tracing and fencing-in of infection. In the longer-term, ability to control the spread of infection is more important than vaccines (which may still take time, efficacy in doubt, and only specific to covid-19 not future pandemic)

"The cruise ship is returning to port "in accordance with government protocols, and will debark guests after a review of contact tracing is completed", Royal Caribbean International said."

not all will be quarantine onboard.

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17 minutes ago, Sosaria said:

Actually keeping them on the cruise ship would do more to promote the spread of infection among the rest, wouldn't it? From past experience. The air circulation system, air con, sewerage, etc. running from cabin to cabin, no matter how well it is filtered as they claim, we saw what happen on cruise ships previously.

this is true.

but the risk of that guy spreading to other passengers , and those passengers disembark and spreading inland is too great .

u go to cruise b4, u know how crowded it is, dun need many , he just need to spread to 10 , and these 10 will create havoc for us if they disembark. ( he could have spread to hundreds )

 

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This is a good opportunity for govt to show that its TraceTogether is working and enables them to quickly segregate those in close contact with the individual. 

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Suggest keep them in their rooms for 14 days, since they like to cruise so much, now they can be stuck in the floating room for 14 days and enjoy re-circulated air..

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47 minutes ago, Blueray said:

wah, Diamond Princess part 2 ?

if the protocols require that all passengers not be allowed to disembark, then do dare to go in future ?

Looks like covid not stable at all, even the cruise to nowhere barely just started not long ago, and now also kana covid case on board! 😓

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a big dent in the confidence for cruise business

guess they can eat grass for the next one year liao

people unlikely to risk again

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