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View all search resultsAfter enduring a coronavirus outbreak on a Carnival Corp. luxury cruise liner, some passengers say they are still trapped aboard another luxurious “ghost ship”, isolated and unable to get home -- more than a month after they first set sail.
The government last month allowed 2,700 passengers to walk off the Carnival Australia-owned Ruby Princess and travel to their homes around the country -- despite a ban on cruise ships docking in Australia being announced just days earlier.
While the crisis is unprecedented in scale for the cruise sector, ship operators have extensive experience in dealing with the challenge of containing disease outbreaks. In fact, along with aviation, the cruising industry has the strictest health and safety controls of any tourism industry sector.
The government transported 188 Indonesian nationals working as crew members aboard the World Dream cruise ship to the relatively uninhabited Sebaru Island, part of Jakarta, on Wednesday for quarantine amid coronavirus concerns.
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