Approximately 4,600 of the ship’s passengers and crew were aboard the Majestic Princess departing from New Zeland in Sydney. About 800 of them tested positive for the coronavirus. Virologists are not surprised by this. The level of transmission on ships is one of the highest and situations where a significant percentage of passengers on huge ships fell ill are well known from the past.
Australia. Cruise ship full of COVID-19 patients
Princess Cruises, the cruise line, said in a statement that all guests on board had taken a rapid antigen test within 24 hours prior to disembarkation, and passengersthose who passed it positively disembarked separately and will not use public transport. Some of them even chose to isolate themselves on board until they recovered. However, the company has offered them accommodation, as the ship is about to sail Melbourne.
Marguerite Fitzgerald, who is the chief executive of Majestic Princess’ parent company, Carnival Australia, said all cases were asymptomatic or mild, but virologists fear the number of infections in Australia will continue to rise.
Australia expects more infections
Referring to the illnesses aboard the Majestic Princess, Dr Steve Robson, who is also president of the Australian Medical Association, offered Chirpingthat “unless the major public hospitals on the East Coast are overcrowded and understaffed during the summer break, I will donate 1,000 dollars for charity”. Thus, he manifested his confidence that such a situation would soon arise.
Fears in Australia are not unfounded. The Washington Post remembers itthat in early 2020, another Carnival Cruises cruise ship “Ruby Princess” allowed thousands of passengers to disembark in Sydney in one of Australia’s largest coronavirus outbreaks. As a result, at least 28 people have died and 700 cases of infection have been directly linked to this vessel.” It has been nearly three years and since then, as a community, we have learned much, much more about COVID” – Fitzgerald reassured in an interview with “The Guardian”.
The statistics are also reassuring. The “Washington Post” wrote that in Australia, as of November 9, almost 96 percent. inhabitants older than 16 received two doses vaccinations against the coronavirus. Just 12 people were reported to have died from COVID-19 over the course of a week on Friday, or half the number from a month ago.
Coronavirus in Poland. How many infections are there?
Same situation with coronavirus look inside Poland. Yesterday 73 coronavirus infections were confirmed, including 10 reinfections. No one died for this. Last week, tests confirmed 578 coronavirus infections, including 125 reinfections. Unfortunately, there have also been 13 deaths of people with COVID-19. It should be noted, however, that these numbers are not entirely reliable, because we no longer officially test ourselves on as large a scale as even a year ago. We also recall that in pe³ni 59.2% are vaccinated in Poland. population.
