2021/22 Cruise Ship Season

[Captain Sensible]

The cruise ship season starts on Saturady 16th October when the first ship arrives.

Up until 21 May, 126 cruise ships are due to arrive.

https://radiosintonia.com/el-sabado-16-d...J-Edanbz3Q

[TamaraEnLaPlaya]

The Aida Nova won't be making it's next scheduled stop here. It's had to offload the passengers in Portugal after a outbreak of 70 COVID infections.

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from Noticias:

Safe cruises are possible.
The scientific journal 'Journal of Travel Medicine' publishes a work prepared by doctors from the General Directorate of Public Health of the Government of the Canary Islands in charge of managing cases of COVID-19 detected among passengers and crew of cruise ships arrived in the Archipelago between November 2020 and May 2021

The study called Prevention of COVID-19 on cruise ships: real experience in the Canary Islands, prepared by the doctors of the General Directorate of Public Health of the Canary Islands Health Service Eva Elisa Álvarez León, Dulce María Fernández-Nakoura and Elena López-Villarrubia and the general director of Public Health, José Juan Alemán Sánchez, and published in the prestigious international scientific journal Journal of Travel Medicine shows that a safe cruise trip is possible during the pandemic caused by COVID-19.

This article summarizes the work carried out by the General Directorate of Public Health in the tracing, management and care of confirmed cases of SARS-CoV-2 infection detected in cruise ships that arrived in the Archipelago between November 2020 and May 2021.

The main conclusion drawn from this study is that both cruise passengers and crew members who arrived in the Canary Islands on board these ships did so safely, since few cases of COVID-19 were reported and there were no major outbreaks of Coronavirus.

All this was possible thanks to preventive measures, periodic screening, exhaustive epidemiological control and early disembarkation and under medical supervision of confirmed cases and close contacts, which prevented further spread of the Coronavirus in the pre-Delta and pre-Omicron era.

20 confirmed cases among more than 103,000 passengers and crew

In this period of time, five European cruise ships mobilized more than 100,000 passengers and more than 3,000 crew, always sailing between the Canary Islands, on trips whose duration ranged between seven and 14 days.

Thanks to the strict protocol for the prevention, diagnosis and monitoring of COVID-19 developed jointly with the General Directorate of Public Health, only 19 confirmed cases of COVID-19 were reported among passengers and a single case among the crews of these ships and no deaths from Coronavirus were reported.

In addition, a total of 96 people traveling on board these five cruise ships had to quarantine because they had been close contacts of a confirmed positive.

Of the 20 confirmed CASES in COVID-19, only two required hospital admission and, of those, one had to be admitted to an intensive care unit of a hospital.

Both the confirmed cases of COVID-19 and their contacts were housed in different tourist establishments of the Archipelago, where compliance with all prevention measures to avoid the transmission of Coronavirus was guaranteed and were also closely followed by private medical services to monitor the possible appearance of symptoms compatible with a SARS-CoV-2 infection.

Confirmed cases and their close contacts were able to return to their respective countries of origin once they had passed the corresponding isolation and quarantine period.

The importance of collaboration between institutions

For this protocol to work properly in the detection, management and control of positive cases and close contacts between passengers and crew of cruise ships in the Canary Islands, coordinated work and good communication between the medical staff of each cruise ship, the consignee agencies, the port authorities and the General Directorate of Public Health of the SCS was fundamental.