First thing we need to fight in this world is misinformation and it's spread.People try to generalise things faster and don't really understand the ground reality.
One of the same thing ,I am discussing here about cruise ship Covid-19 ground report.
Before that we should roughly know how big is cruise industry and how many people involve and travel in that.
An estimated 27.2 million will cruise globally.There are around 314 cruise ships employing 5 million crew on those ships.
That's lot of revenue to those nation's.
Now let us come to Covid-19.
How it started?
The man was seen by a ship doctor on Feb. 20 for serious respiratory problems. The man told the doctor that he had been feeling unwell for six or seven days,That would mean the man first had symptoms on Feb. 13 or Feb. 14 — two or three days after boarding the ship in San Francisco.
So it might have started earlier in USA.but the blame went to the cruise company.
How well they responded to the crisis?
Before that we discuss how well anyone responded.Initially all countries thought and never believed this is a serious issue.They thought that it's another flu.
But I think they acted fast and took decisions which was never done before in entire cruise industry.
They first time in history paused the operations for 30 days and agreed to all instructions and orders imposed by CDC.
New rules new protocols..
They started dedicated team and evolving protocols satisfying international health organization and CDC guidelines.
They started social distancing ,closing parties and other group activities,hand washing, temperature checks manythings to prevent the spread
Latest challenge..
Now as the cruise operations are stopped,they have to bring back crew home.Its biggest challenge because of many travel restrictions .
Still they arranged charter flights complying with CDC guidelines but it's not a smooth process
So they decided to travel through their own ships taking care of the conditions on ship everyday and by keeping health of the crew safe and sound.
It's biggest challenge but they will do it and they can definitely do it.
All cruise ships will be back...😊