From USAtoday.com…
Princess Cruises’ Ruby Princess docked in San Francisco Sunday after a 15-day Panama Canal cruise with a cluster of COVID-19 cases on board.
The ship departed later that day on its next voyage – a 15-day cruise to Hawaii – Negin Kamali, spokesperson for Princess Cruises, told USA TODAY.
The cruise line said in a statement shared by Kamali Monday that the COVID cases were discovered among both passengers and crew members. The company did not specify the number of people on board who tested positive.
“They were all asymptomatic or only mildly symptomatic and were isolated and quarantined while monitored and cared for by our shipboard Medical team,” Princess Cruises said.
Passenger and crew vaccination rates were at “100%,” according to the cruise line.
On the Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s “Cruise Ship Status Dashboard,” which provides info on COVID-19 levels present on ships and what kinds of precautions those vessels are taking, the ship is listed as “under observation” by the health agency.
