66 passengers onboard Mumbai-Goa cruise ship test positive for Covid-19

2022-01-05 3

66 passengers onboard Cordelia cruise tested positive on January 04. Of the 66 passengers, six people disembarked in Goa and the rest 60 returned to Mumbai. All passengers aboard the ship will undergo RT-PCR tests. Passengers who test negative will undergo 7-day mandatory home quarantine.Prajakta Ambrekar, Medical officer (BMC), said that the passengers who tested positive will be kept under isolation onboard the Cordelia ship and their samples will be sent for genome sequencing. Passengers who tested negative will have to undergo a 7-day mandatory home quarantine. “66 passengers onboard Cordelia cruise tested positive. Of these,6 ppl disembarked in Goa, the remaining 60 have returned to Mumbai today.