Cordelia Cruise Ship With 60 Covid Patients Docks At Mumbai Port, All Passengers To Be Tested

Passengers who test positive will be kept under isolation onboard Cordelia ship and their samples will be sent for genome sequencing.

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Mumbai: The Cordelia cruise ship with 66 Covid-19 infected passengers docked at the Mumbai port on Tuesday evening. Of the 66 onboard, six passengers were disembarked in Goa and the remaining 60 were brought to Mumbai, Prajakta Ambrekar, Medical officer, BMC said. 

All passengers onboard the ship will undergo RT-PCR test and their results will be out by 7 am tomorrow, news agency ANI quoted Ambrekar as saying.

Passengers who test positive will be kept under isolation onboard Cordelia ship and their samples will be sent for genome sequencing. Those who will test negative will undergo a 7-day mandatory home quarantine. 

For now, the 60 positive passengers who arrived in Mumbai today will be kept under institutional quarantine, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) said.

66 Passengers Onboard Mumbai-Goa Cruise Ship Test Positive

Out of the nearly 2,000 passengers travelling onboard a Mumbai-Goa luxury cruiseliner, samples of travellers along with crew members were tested and 66 have turned positive for Covid, Health Minister Vishwajit Rane said on Monday.

Medical team with PPE kits entered the ship at Mormugao to conduct an RT-PCR test of all 2,016 people (including passengers and crew members). After one crew member tested positive for Covid-19, authorities checked samples of everyone on board.

Earlier in the day, Cordelia Cruise ship management claimed that only one of its crew members had tested Covid-19 positive in Goa on Sunday and the guests who were confirmed cases may have been infected before they boarded the ship.