According to the American Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, all the victims are isolated in their cabins, experts give them tests to understand the causes of the emergence and spread of the virus.
The ship’s operating company said norovirus outbreaks are not uncommon on cruise ships, mainly due to its high contagiousness, but could not explain what could have caused the illness in so many people. . The Ruby Princess cruise ship has already made global headlines during the pandemic, when it was even dubbed a “floating prison”.
In 2020, 660 people on board the ship contracted covid, 28 of them died. Then more than three thousand passengers became prisoners of the liner without their knowledge for several months. The ship was moored off the Australian coast and all holidaymakers were placed in strict quarantine. Subsequently, new coronavirus outbreaks appeared on the ship more than once, as the number of cases numbered in the hundreds of passengers.
