“We are aware of,” said the spokesman for the shipping company Aida Cruises, headquartered in Rostock, Hans-jörg Kunze. The crucial step was to prevent the Infected to come on Board. Currently there is no Chinese ports would not run any more, even Hong Kong and Macau. This is currently two Aida ships, whose routes have been changed.
passengers to get on all of the ships before Boarding a health questionnaire. “Everyone who was of 14 days in advance in China, is not taken.” A Coronavirus-suspected case have not given it yet for Aida yet.
cruise ship “Diamond Princess”: 3600, passengers in quarantine – German
On the other cruise, the pathogen surfaced ships already. So he has been demonstrated in well over 100 of the people on Board the “Diamond Princess”. According to current information, the other around 3600 passengers and crew members to 19 to. February stay on the cruise ship from Yokohama in Japan, under quarantine.
On Board of the German Embassy in Tokyo, according to the ten German nationals. In Hong Kong, 3600 people were, however, in the meantime, the cruise ship “World Dream” to leave. The ship had been set in the last week, after three previous pass the Virus to act had been established.
cruise ships: hygiene standard> high <p, The Problem is the up to 14-day period from infection to disease, make a quarantine is necessary, is Emil Reisinger, tropical medicine and infectiology Lodge at the University of Rostock said. The standard of hygiene on cruise ships is generally high. This was also urgently needed, since many of the passengers lived together in a limited space. A certain degree of protection against the Coronavirus could provide for the compulsory disinfection of hands, since the novel Virus could also be due to the lubrication transmitted infections.
The cruise industry had tightened on Friday its precautionary measures. Passengers or crew members traveled to 14 days before the embarkation from or about China, or about airports in this Region in Transit – including Hong Kong and Macau are not allowed to Board a cruise ship. In addition, all persons will be refused carriage, which may have had contact with an infected Person, he had communicated to the international cruise Association Clia. A number of cruises, which had led to China, were rescheduled, changed or deleted. In the FOCUS Online/Wochit In the
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