Tag: cruise vessel Coronavirus

• Saturday, April 11th 2020 - 10:59 UTC

  “Gracias Uruguay”: stranded “Greg Mortimer” Australian cruisers will be back on Easter Sunday

  

  With a large improvised banner reading “Gracias Uruguay” (Thank you Uruguay) on starboard the COVID-19 infected “Greg Mortimer” finally docked in the port of Montevideo on Friday and at 22:00 Uruguay hour started the medical evacuation of over a hundred cruisers from Australia and New Zealand who are to be charter flown to Melbourne, and expected to arrive on Easter Sunday.

• Monday, April 6th 2020 - 11:22 UTC

  “Greg Mortimer” off the coast of Uruguay has 81 passengers tested positive

  

  Eighty-one people on the Greg Mortimer cruise ship, which has been stranded off the coast of Uruguay for almost two weeks and has over 90 Australians on board, have tested positive for coronavirus.

• Saturday, March 28th 2020 - 08:58 UTC

  Four passengers dead on the MS Zaandam which last called in Punta Arenas

  

  Four passengers have died on a cruise ship off the Pacific coast of Panama with more than 130 others aboard suffering from influenza-like symptoms, at least two of whom have coronavirus, the vessel's operator said on Friday.