The news agency PTI reported this morning that a cruise ship on which 66 of the nearly 2,000 individuals on board tested positive for COVID-19 yesterday was sent back to Mumbai from a port in Goa. Several diseased passengers refused to leave the Cordelia cruise ship for quarantine at a Goa medical facility.
According to an official, all of the passengers were tested after a crew member tested positive on Sunday.
The ship was returned back to Mumbai at 11.30 p.m. yesterday after 27 positive passengers refused to leave the cruise ship, according to JM Baxi & Cooperations manager Govind Pernulkar of shipping firm JM Baxi and Co.
“After some of the passengers who tested positive refused to be admitted to a COVID-19 facility in Goa, the ship was forced to return. Only six of the 66 crew members who tested positive left the ship in Goa “According to Mr. Pernulkar.
He said that after considering the situation, the south Goa district administration ordered that the ship along with all the passengers be sent back to Mumbai. “The passengers who were shifted to an isolation facility were brought back to the ship before it sailed for Mumbai. The passengers would be isolated on the ship,” he said.
According to him, the south Goa district administration decided to send the ship and all of the passengers back to Mumbai after analysing the circumstances. “Before the ship embarked for Mumbai, passengers who had been sent to an isolation unit were returned to the ship. On the ship, the passengers will be secluded “he stated
In the midst of the Omicron menace, the cruise ship was carrying a big number of guests who had come to celebrate the New Year. The cruise liner Cordelia was seized by Narcotics Control Bureau investigators last year over an alleged drugs bust in a case that included actor Shah Rukh Khan’s son Aryan Khan and others.
