Numerous information shops in Australia are reporting that the Queen Elizabeth cruise ship is experiencing a COVID-19 outbreak. The nation of Bali took the extraordinary step of blocking the Cunard ship from calling at port.
Neither the cruise operator (Cunard) nor ship proprietor (Carnival Company) would disclose the variety of 
contaminated passengers or crew members. The Sydney Morning Herald reported that Cunard admitted “there was an ‘elevated stage of transmission’ on board, however declined to supply case numbers.”
The Sydney Morning Herald states that authorities in Indonesian requested the Queen Elizabeth to desert the Balinese leg of its 17-day tour, following a COVID-19 outbreak on board.
“The Queen Elizabeth left Sydney on November 15, stopping at Airlie Seashore, Cairns, Port Douglas and Darwin, however will minimize quick the ultimate week of its tour and head straight to Fremantle.”
ABC Information in Australia stories that the “WA (West Australia) authorities stated it had acquired data that 10 to fifteen p.c of the folks on board are COVID-positive.”
With almost 2,100 passengers and a crew of round 1,000, that signifies that between 310 and 465 folks on the Cunard ship had been constructive for COVID-19.
Spokeswoman for Cunard, operator of #cruise ship, exhibiting ordinary lack of transparency, declined to supply variety of folks contaminated with #COVID19 🤐 Pressured abandonment of #cruise ship’s Bali port name follows Majestic Princess with 800 #COVID19 ++constructive pax & crew in Sydney.
— James (Jim) Walker (@CruiseLaw) November 26, 2022
The Australian newspaper added that the “abandonment of the ship’s Bali tour follows the berthing of the Majestic Princess in Sydney earlier this month, carrying 800 COVID-positive passengers and crew.”
There was a pattern of cruise ships calling on Australian ports within the final month with a major variety of passengers and crew members constructive for COVID-19:
Majestic Princess – 800 contaminated visitors (Sydney);
Quantum of the Seas – 400 contaminated visitors (heading towards Queensland)
Coral Princess – 290 contaminated visitors and crew (Fremantle);
Grand Princess – 200 contaminated visitors (Melbourne);
Ovation of the Seas – 129 contaminated visitors and a pair of crew member (New Zealand)
Majestic Princess – 116 contaminated visitors (Tahiti).
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Photograph Credit score: Queen Elizabeth – Screen seize 9 Information Australia.
