In a massive development, at least 2,000 people are feared stuck on the Mumbai-Goa Cordelia cruise after a crew member tested positive for the coronavirus on Sunday night, January 2.
The state government didn’t let them disembark in Goa and all the passengers and crew members are now being tested. Meanwhile, the infected crew member is under isolation on the ship. The person was found positive in a rapid antigen test.
According to reports, all passengers have been instructed to not de-board from the ship until the results of RT-PCR are declared.
The Cordelia cruise ship is currently docked near Mormugao Port cruise terminal. Mumbai Port Trust did not allow the ship to dock in Goa.
Moreover, the authorities have asked all the passengers to remain on the cruise ship will their test results are out. Operators of this cruise ship have been asked to conduct COVID-19 tests on all the passengers through the Vasco-based Salgaonkar Medical Research Centre (SMRC) Hospital.
In addition, Goa government will soon set up a genome sequencing machine in the next 15 days to avoid delay in the testing of suspected Omicron variant samples, which are currently sent to the Pune-based National Institute of Virology (NIV).
On Sunday, January 2, the tally of Omicron cases in Maharashtra surpassed the 500 threshold with an additional 50 cases, reports stated. Till now, the state has registered 510 confirmed cases of the highly transmissible variant of COVID-19.
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