Covid-19 positive passengers refuse to leave, cruise ship in Goa sails back to Mumbai
Passengers who were shifted to an isolation facility were brought back to the ship before sailing for Mumbai
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A cruise ship on which 66 of the over 2,000 people on board tested positive for Covid-19 has been sent back to Mumbai from a Goa port, said reports. Many infected passengers refused to leave the cruise ship, Cordelia, for quarantine at a medical facility in Goa.
The cruise ship was carrying a crowd of passengers who came to celebrate the New Year amidst the Omicron threat. Cordelia is the same cruise ship raided by NCB officials in 2021 over an alleged drugs bust in a case in which actor Shah Rukh Khan's son Aryan Khan was named.
The infected passengers will stay on the ship, said an official. All the passengers were tested after a crew member was found positive on Sunday. The ship was sent back to Mumbai, from where it had set sail for a New Year party at 11.30 pm after 27 positive passengers refused to leave the cruise ship.
The ship had to be sent back after some of the passengers who tested positive refused to get admitted to a Covid facility in Goa. Only 6 crew members out of the total 66 who tested positive left the cruise in Goa.
After considering the situation, the south Goa district administration ordered that the ship along with all the passengers be sent back to Mumbai. The passengers who were shifted to an isolation facility were brought back to the ship before it sailed for Mumbai. The passengers would be isolated on the ship.