Guests complain of poor management after recent COVID-19 outbreak on Carnival Spirit

A recent Covid-19 outbreak on a Carnival cruise ship that landed in Seattle following a two-week sail is being investigated by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. According to a statement from the cruise line, the Carnival Spirit departed Miami on April 17 and reached Seattle on May 3 after sailing through the Panama Canal. The ship can accommodate 2,124 passengers and 930 staff members. The CDC says it isn't allowed to reveal publicly how many passengers and crew members were isolated or tested positive. However, according to the CDC's cruise ship Covid-19 criteria, the ship is classified as orange, suggesting that 0.3 percent or more of all guests and crew members tested positive. According to the CDC, the ship's colour status aids in determining the extent of the inquiry and the Carnival Spirit is one of 62 cruise ships that are now on orange alert. The cruise line and the CDC both stated that those who tested positive had no serious consequences or health difficulties, and that the majority of passengers were asymptomatic. "Our health and safety practises, which included vaccine requirements and pre-cruise testing of all visitors, exceeded CDC norms. Our team is also immunised and wears masks," Carnival stated in a statement. "Our protocols are designed to stretch up as needed and additional measures were introduced during the cruise.All guests planned to continue on the ship's next cruise to Alaska were also tested, and any guests and their travelling partners who tested positive were disembarked." According to Carnival, the ship departed Seattle for Alaska later on May 3 the CDC is working with the cruise line as well as state and local health officials to "enact existing Covid-19 agreements and protocols." Some guests on board the ship said that crew members handled the Covid-19 virus poorly. Darren Siefertson, a Las Vegas, Nevada resident, told media that he boarded the ship on April 17 from Miami and learned on April 26 that the ship had a Covid-19 outbreak. Siefertson claimed that after testing positive, he was offered an isolation cabin but was instead forced to share a room with his roommate. When Siefertson called the medical centre for an update, no one answered the phone because it had already closed before its regular closing hour. When Siefertson's cabin partner inquired about their options, he was told that there were no more isolation rooms available and that he would have to share a room with a COVID positive. Room service took "hours to provide food to individuals who were in quarantine," according to ship guests. Siefertson also stated that his cabin and two other cabins close him began to smell like sewage a few days after testing positive.

Guests complain of poor management after recent COVID-19 outbreak on Carnival Spirit

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