More than 1,700 passengers and crew on Wednesday entered their fourth day stuck aboard a cruise liner inside Cape Town harbour because of a coronavirus scare
The MV Corona, a cargo ship, set sail from Cape Town last week but returned to Table Bay after the crew member started showing symptoms consistent with Covid-19. A fellow crew member who was also on the flight, but who is asymptomatic, is in isolation.
“Six passengers on board the Italian-flagged MV AIDAmira passenger vessel had been on the same flight as the crew members of the MV Corona,” Transnet said in a statement on Tuesday. “According to the master and the doctor on the passenger liner, the six have shown no symptoms of the virus but are in isolation and being monitored continuously.
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