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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 09, 2023
Australian cruise ship stranded off Uruguay after 60% positive Covid-19 cases

Coronavirus chronicle

TBS Report
08 April, 2020, 02:55 pm
Last modified: 08 April, 2020, 03:02 pm

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Australian cruise ship stranded off Uruguay after 60% positive Covid-19 cases

Of the 217 people on board, 128 passengers and crew have now tested positive for the virus

TBS Report
08 April, 2020, 02:55 pm
Last modified: 08 April, 2020, 03:02 pm
Australian cruise ship stranded off Uruguay after 60% positive Covid-19 cases

Passengers from Australia and New Zealand will be evacuated from a stricken Antarctic cruise ship 60% of the passengers and crew have been infected with coronavirus.

The Greg Mortimer, a cruise liner operated by Australia's Aurora Expeditions, departed March 15 on a voyage to Antarctica and South Georgia. Since the beginning of April, however, the ship has been stuck off the coast of Uruguay, after authorities refused to allow passengers to disembark due to the risk of coronavirus, reported CNN.

Of the 217 people on board, 128 passengers and crew have now tested positive for the virus.

The Greg Mortimer has been anchored 20km (12 miles) off the coast of Uruguay since 27 March, but authorities in the South American country had until now refused to allow passengers off.
"We found a ship where almost everyone has been infected," said Karina Rando, one of 21 Uruguayan doctors dispatched to the ship. "We've done our utmost to prevent our own infection. Most of the passengers are well."

Many of those who tested positive are still asymptomatic, but could still be at risk, said Rando.

"There are many patients over 70 years of age, some of them with other chronic conditions such as heart and lung diseases," she said. "Those patients may fall seriously ill tomorrow even if they looked well today."

The ship set out on 15 March from the Argentinian port of Ushuaia, the southernmost city in the world. It was to have undertaken a 16-day cruise to Antarctica and South Georgia, christened "In Shackleton's Footsteps" after the Irish polar explorer, Ernest Shackleton.

Symptoms of coronavirus started to appear soon after departure, and the ship diverted to the Uruguayan capital Montevideo. Even the ship's doctor fell ill with a fever and was left unable to perform his duties.

"We have made it clear that the ill health and the isolation of the crew is making it difficult to maintain the same standard of essential services onboard," Aurora Expeditions told passengers on 2 April.
Uruguay denied permission for the ship to dock, and also refused to allow passengers or crew to disembark.

That decision was eventually reversed at the weekend, when a Uruguayan naval vessel was dispatched to the Greg Mortimer to remove six gravely ill passengers and take them to the British Hospital in Montevideo.

On Saturday the Uruguayan navy tweeted a video of a passenger – reportedly a British woman with pneumonia in both lungs – leaping from the moving cruise ship to the military vessel to be taken to hospital in the Uruguayan capital.

"The people on the ship are calm but they are eager to go home," Marcelo Girard, a doctor at a Uruguayan medical facility where two people from the cruise ship are being treated, told the AP.
Passengers from Australia and New Zealand will board an emergency flight bound for Melbourne on Thursday, Uruguayan authorities confirmed on Tuesday afternoon.

The cost per passenger is about US$9,300 and the cruise ship operator has asked the Australian government for help with expenses. On landing, the passengers will undergo a mandatory 14-day quarantine.

Other passengers will have to wait longer. "We have been advised that European and American passengers that have tested positive to Covid-19 unfortunately must wait until they have a negative test result, after which we will be able to organise their departure via São Paulo [in Brazil] and then to their final destination," the company said.

Uruguay has 406 confirmed cases of coronavirus and has had six deaths.

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