The Celebrity Eclipse docked in Sydney, Australia with, depending upon which news outlet you read, anywhere from 100 to over 1,500 people infected with COVID-19.
The Daily Mail reports that “far more than 1,500 people” on the cruise ship operated by Celebrity Cruises were positive for COVID-19.
The Australian newspaper reports that around 300 people
Princess Cruises again? 200 #COVID19 positive on @PrincessCruises Grand Princess #cruise ship allowed to come ashore in Melbourne Australia after 13 day round-trip to New Zealand. "Some stuck in tiny cabins for up to 8 days before allowed to disembark," https://t.co/vDpz3VSlUJ
— James (Jim) Walker (@CruiseLaw) November 17, 2022
7News Australia reports on its Facebook page that “200 COVID positive
Princess Cruises’ Majestic Princess returned to Sydney this morning after a twelve-day cruise which left port on October 31st. There reportedly are now over eight hundred (800) active COVID-19 cases on this ship. This is the biggest single outbreak since the Ruby Princess cruise ship arrived in Sydney in March 2020 with 900 infected passengers.
Cruise ships are returning to Australia, New Zealand and Tahiti amidst reports that four cruise ships (two operated by Princess Cruises and two by Royal Caribbean) are rife with COVID-19. Three of the ships have one hundred or more COVID-19 infected guests on each ship. Royal Caribbean has one ship heading to Australia with reports
On June 30th, Princess Cruises celebrated the Majestic Princess’s maiden cruise to Taiwan by releasing hundreds of red, blue, yellow, and pink balloons from the ship, which it photographed and posted on its Facebook page.
The reaction to this environmentally-harmful publicity stunt was immediate. At the time of publishing this article, there were over
