More Cruise Ships Under CDC Investigation Due To COVID Cases

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MIAMI (CBSMiami/AP) – The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is investigating much cruise ships owed to caller cases of COVID-19 arsenic the omicron variant drives highly precocious corruption levels successful the manufacture hub of Florida.

The CDC said 88 vessels are present either nether probe oregon observation, but it did not specify however galore COVID-19 cases person been reported. Four different vessels are besides being monitored by the CDC arsenic well.

Florida deed a caller grounds for regular cases connected Tuesday with 46,900 caller cases successful a day. Since Christmas, the state’s 7-day mean of regular cases has surpassed erstwhile records acceptable during past summer’s surge, rising to 29,400 infections.

Coronavirus hospitalizations successful the authorities person besides risen from astir 1,200 patients 2 weeks agone to astir 3,400 connected Wednesday. But that is inactive little than one-fifth the fig of hospitalizations reported successful precocious August owed to the delta wave.

Democratic Sen. Richard Blumenthal is calling for the CDC and cruise lines to again halt cruise travel, six months aft the manufacture mounted its comeback.

“Our warnings person proved sadly prescient and continuously compelling. Time for CDC and cruise lines to support consumers, again intermission — docking their ships,” the Connecticut legislator posted connected Twitter.

Cruise lines person not announced immoderate plans to halt cruising.

None of the ships truthful acold look to person truthful galore cases that they would overwhelm aesculapian resources connected committee and necessitate a instrumentality to port. But immoderate person been denied introduction astatine immoderate overseas ports.

Several Florida-based ships person reported outbreaks. The Carnival Freedom was denied introduction to Aruba and Bonaire aft an undisclosed fig of passengers and unit aboard caught the virus.

Some cruise ships person not been allowed to disembark successful Mexican ports owed to cases reported, bringing to representation the aboriginal days of the pandemic erstwhile cruise lines negotiated docking plans arsenic ships were being turned distant by officials disquieted astir the virus’s spread.

The Mexican authorities said Tuesday it would let cruise ships with reported coronavirus cases to dock. The country’s Health Department said passengers oregon unit who amusement nary symptoms volition beryllium allowed to travel ashore normally, portion those with symptoms oregon a affirmative microorganism trial volition beryllium quarantined oregon fixed aesculapian care.

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