MORE than 3,000 passengers are being held on Royal Caribbean International’s Spectrum of the Seas after a COVID scare prompted authorities to order the ship to return to Hong Kong. Nine people on board Spectrum, which was on a cruise to nowhere around the South China Sea, were identified as...
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MORE than 3,000 passengers are being held on Royal Caribbean International’s Spectrum of the Seas after a COVID scare prompted authorities to order the ship to return to Hong Kong.
Nine people on board Spectrum, which was on a cruise to nowhere around the South China Sea, were identified as close contacts of a positive COVID case.
Hong Kong’s authorities have since suspended cruises to nowhere for two weeks.
Royal Caribbean said it was informed of the close contacts on 04 Jan, and subsequently tested and isolated the passengers in question.
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