next update will be @3pm
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all still stuck on board for now...
haaaa
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all still stuck on board for now...
haaaa
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breaking : developing story...cruise tio covid liao..still dare to go cruise...haaaa
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Just imagine the contact tracing when everyone on board can just wander anywhere, no SHN, no HQO.
Dafug?!
Who the covidiot ministet who approved this?
Was it the rookie Transport Minister Ong? He seems obsessed with air travel, can't imagine him discriminating against sea travel.
Sinkie PAP Leegime is a distilled version of China's CCP regime.
Most people are conditioned to blindly obey the govt. A bunch of 顺民 simpletons.
Do the passengers have to stay onboard for 14 days?
What in hell is a ministet? In future rent a brain before you post.
From the Japan cruise ship experience, trapping them in cruise ship will cause further outbreaks.
I think they will get free stays at local hotels.
Which will then be used for Sinkie Rediscover staycations.
I think claim travel insurance. The insurers faint.
siao riao lor. even greenlane business travellers needs 48-72hr quarantine.
immediately go home, means community outbreak.
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/202...-keep-mounting-after-cruise-ship-fiasco-japan
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/22/world/asia/coronavirus-japan-cruise-ship.html
Update 9 : 3pm - MOH & STB have advised that Genting Dream Cruise needs to embark and leave before we can disembark. COVID patient has left the ship. They are currently sanitizing the ship. Lunch 5.30-6.30pm
Next update from captain - 7pm
Next update from captain - 7pm
should have torpedoed the ship in the middle of nowhere with all on board.
bbc.com
Covid-19: Singapore 'cruise to nowhere' ends after passenger tests positive
image copyrightRoyal Caribbean
image captionThe coronavirus pandemic has largely shut down the cruise industry
A Royal Caribbean ship has returned to Singapore on day three of a four-day "cruise to nowhere" after a passenger tested positive for Covid-19.
The city-state's "cruises to nowhere" - starting and ending at the same port without stops - launched last month.
They are an attempt to revive the hard-hit cruise industry, which largely came to a global standstill after ships saw large outbreaks early in the pandemic.
Singapore's special cruises are only open to its residents.
The Royal Caribbean cruise ship Quantum of the Seas left Singapore on Monday for a four-day round trip as part of a "safe cruising" scheme announced by the country's tourism board in October.
The cruise company said it had turned the ship around after one guest tested positive for coronavirus after checking in with the on-board medical team.
"We identified and isolated all guests and crew who had close contact with this guest, and each of those individuals have subsequently tested negative for the virus," it said in a statement.
The firm added that passengers would be allowed to disembark "after a review of contact tracing is completed".
According to The Straits Times, a Singaporean daily newspaper, there were 1,680 guests and 1,448 crew members on board.
The passenger who tested positive for Covid-19 was an 83-year-old Singaporean who first reported to the ship's medical centre with diarrhoea and underwent a coronavirus test as part of on-board protocols, it added.
A raft of safety measures were introduced for passengers on the special cruises to nowhere, including Covid-19 tests before boarding and after disembarking. The ships were also running at half their usual capacity for safe distancing purposes.
image copyrightGetty Images
image captionThe first 'cruise to nowhere' launched on another ship in November with stringent safety checks
"That we were able to quickly identify this single case and take immediate action is a sign that the system is working as it was designed to do," said the Royal Caribbean.
Late on Wednesday morning, a Reddit user, who said they were quarantined on the ship, posted that passengers were "not cleared to disembark yet".
The user had first posted on the social media platform at 02:42 local time (18:43 GMT) to say the captain had just announced the cruise would be cut short due to the Covid-19 case.
The cruise industry was hit hard early in the pandemic, when the virus first swept the Diamond Princess in Japan and then the Grand Princess in the US, resulting in passengers being quarantined at sea after hundreds contracted the virus onboard.
Royal Caribbean has said another cruise scheduled to depart on Thursday will go ahead, local media reported.
An 'uncertain future' for cruise operators
By Andreas Illmer, BBC News, Singapore
Singaporeans are desperate to get off their little island. For months, the border has been effectively closed and the thirst for travel has taken bizarre forms like eating airline food on a plane parked on the tarmac or booking staycations at the airport.
An eagerly awaited travel bubble with Hong Kong was delayed because of rising cases over there.
So the 'cruises to nowhere' were the first real travel option in a very long time - and the initial trips all sold out in no time. Returning guests were beaming with praise and enthusiasm, both about the cruise experience and the safety protocol.
After all, in the early days of the pandemic, cruise ships had been hotbeds for the virus, sometimes stranded for weeks at sea with those on board not allowed to get off. But Singapore has had only a handful cases over the past few months and people put a lot of trust in the authorities' stringent contact tracing.
The Covid case on the Quantum of the Seas will put that trust to the test and cruise operators once again are facing a very uncertain future.
Covid-19: Singapore 'cruise to nowhere' ends after passenger tests positive
image captionThe coronavirus pandemic has largely shut down the cruise industry
A Royal Caribbean ship has returned to Singapore on day three of a four-day "cruise to nowhere" after a passenger tested positive for Covid-19.
The city-state's "cruises to nowhere" - starting and ending at the same port without stops - launched last month.
They are an attempt to revive the hard-hit cruise industry, which largely came to a global standstill after ships saw large outbreaks early in the pandemic.
Singapore's special cruises are only open to its residents.
The Royal Caribbean cruise ship Quantum of the Seas left Singapore on Monday for a four-day round trip as part of a "safe cruising" scheme announced by the country's tourism board in October.
The cruise company said it had turned the ship around after one guest tested positive for coronavirus after checking in with the on-board medical team.
"We identified and isolated all guests and crew who had close contact with this guest, and each of those individuals have subsequently tested negative for the virus," it said in a statement.
The firm added that passengers would be allowed to disembark "after a review of contact tracing is completed".
According to The Straits Times, a Singaporean daily newspaper, there were 1,680 guests and 1,448 crew members on board.
The passenger who tested positive for Covid-19 was an 83-year-old Singaporean who first reported to the ship's medical centre with diarrhoea and underwent a coronavirus test as part of on-board protocols, it added.
A raft of safety measures were introduced for passengers on the special cruises to nowhere, including Covid-19 tests before boarding and after disembarking. The ships were also running at half their usual capacity for safe distancing purposes.
image captionThe first 'cruise to nowhere' launched on another ship in November with stringent safety checks
"That we were able to quickly identify this single case and take immediate action is a sign that the system is working as it was designed to do," said the Royal Caribbean.
Late on Wednesday morning, a Reddit user, who said they were quarantined on the ship, posted that passengers were "not cleared to disembark yet".
The user had first posted on the social media platform at 02:42 local time (18:43 GMT) to say the captain had just announced the cruise would be cut short due to the Covid-19 case.
The cruise industry was hit hard early in the pandemic, when the virus first swept the Diamond Princess in Japan and then the Grand Princess in the US, resulting in passengers being quarantined at sea after hundreds contracted the virus onboard.
Royal Caribbean has said another cruise scheduled to depart on Thursday will go ahead, local media reported.
An 'uncertain future' for cruise operators
By Andreas Illmer, BBC News, Singapore
Singaporeans are desperate to get off their little island. For months, the border has been effectively closed and the thirst for travel has taken bizarre forms like eating airline food on a plane parked on the tarmac or booking staycations at the airport.
An eagerly awaited travel bubble with Hong Kong was delayed because of rising cases over there.
So the 'cruises to nowhere' were the first real travel option in a very long time - and the initial trips all sold out in no time. Returning guests were beaming with praise and enthusiasm, both about the cruise experience and the safety protocol.
After all, in the early days of the pandemic, cruise ships had been hotbeds for the virus, sometimes stranded for weeks at sea with those on board not allowed to get off. But Singapore has had only a handful cases over the past few months and people put a lot of trust in the authorities' stringent contact tracing.
The Covid case on the Quantum of the Seas will put that trust to the test and cruise operators once again are facing a very uncertain future.
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