Everything was so befuddling’: 48 individuals test positive for COVID on Royal Caribbean Symphony of the Seas transport

48 individuals on board Royal Caribbean’s Symphony of the Seas transport that finished a seven-day cruising in Miami on Saturday tried positive for COVID-19 during the journey, the voyage line said in a refreshed assertion shared Monday morning.
Those 48 individuals who tried positive addressed 0.78% of the 6,091 travelers and team individuals on board Symphony of the Seas, which left Miami on Dec. 11 and made stops in St. Maarten, St. Thomas, and Perfect Day at CocoCay(Royal Caribbean’s private island), the voyage line said in a refreshed assertion gave Monday morning by representative Lyan Sierra-Caro.
At first, the journey line revealed 44 cases ready. “This number (48) incorporates four extra close contacts which were distinguished as COVID-19 positive toward the finish of the journey,” Sierra-Caro said Monday. “The visitors were isolated ready and helped upon the boat’s appearance on Dec. 18.”
All travelers 12 and more established were needed to be completely inoculated and to test negative to board the Symphony of the Seas transport. The boat cruised with 95% of the installed local area completely inoculated on the Dec. 11 to Dec. 18 journey, with 98% of those individuals who tried positive being completely inoculated, Royal Caribbean said.
On Saturday, the voyage line additionally advised travelers from that outing and from two others (a cruising that withdrew Dec. 4 and one that left Dec. 18) that a traveler who cruised on that equivalent boat recently tried positive for the omicron variation of the Covid.
We were informed by the (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) that a visitor on board our (December) fourth journey tried positive and it was distinguished as omicron,” Sierra-Caro said Saturday. “They (CDC) requested that we inform visitors on the cruising — the one that finished today — and the current one.”
In the email to the travelers who cruised on the three travels on Symphony of the Seas, Royal Caribbean illustrated what occurred.
“This visitor didn’t report side effects to our locally available clinical groups as illustrated in our wellbeing conventions,” the voyage line said in a duplicate of the email acquired by USA TODAY. “Their post voyage test results were in this way affirmed as the omicron variation.”
The 48 cases on the as of late landed journey “were found because of promptly recognizing close contacts later a visitor tried positive,” Sierra-Caro said, noticing every individual was isolated rapidly. “Every individual who tried positive is asymptomatic, and we ceaselessly observed their wellbeing.
At first, Royal Caribbean said that every individual who tried positive was asymptomatic. In the assertion Monday morning, it said that “every individual who tried positive were asymptomatic or had gentle indications, and we constantly checked their wellbeing.”
Six travelers landed before in the journey and were moved home. The remainder of the travelers were helped Saturday at disembarkation in Miami, Sierra-Caro said.
In the email to travelers, Royal Caribbean said that the cases on the Dec. eleventh cruising were “disconnected to the omicron case from the visitor who cruised on Dec. fourth.”
It isn’t quickly clear why the cases were inconsequential.
The voyage line exhorted that travelers visit a guaranteed testing focus three to five days later disembarkation, per CDC direction.