Gov. Gavin Newsom said it could take two or three days to get all passengers off the Grand Princess and transferred to healthcare or military facilities.
Passengers confined to their cabins on the Grand Princess cruise ship off the Northern California coast learned Sunday that their week of limbo induced by a COVID-19 outbreak is set to end, as federal and state officials announced a plan to dock at a commercial cargo port in Oakland.
Standing next to Newsom, Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf sought to assure city residents and port workers that officials were taking every precaution to protect them from infection using “best isolation practices.” The remaining guests, including 1,540 Californians, simply disembarked with no knowledge of an outbreak aboard. Twelve of them have tested positive in the state, and one man later died, in Placer County.
“It is nice that he is now welcoming us into California; a few days ago he did not want us anywhere near his state,” Loftus said. Experts said the confinement of passengers aboard the Diamond Princess created conditions highly conducive to the spread of the virus on board. More than two hours offshore, stuck in their cabins, many passengers were struggling with claustrophobic conditions, but were happy to learn they could go outside for fresh air, in batches.
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