has advised against attending cruise ship trips amid the global spread of coronavirus, which has already disrupted several cruise ships across the world with resulting COVID-19 deaths.
Several cruise ships have started reporting coronavirus-positive passengers aboard its ships following the initial devastation of thethat left eight passengers dead, prompting a shake-up across the cruise industry. And the paranoia has now spread past the confinements of the ships: even cruises that have had no reported cases of COVID-19 have been barred from docking in certain countries and ports.
Princess Cruises has been hit more than many other cruise lines. Its Diamond, Grand, Regal, Golden, Pacific, Caribbean, and Royal Princess cruises have all been affected in some way, whether it be coronavirus-related deaths caused by contaminated ships and passengers, or the cancellation of trips just before its departure date out of general COVID-19 fear.
The novel coronavirus, which originated in Wuhan, China, has now infected over 196,000 people globally and killed over 7,800. Several of those deaths are directly related to the spread of COVID-19 throughout cruise ships: almost 700 people have been infected as a result of being on a cruise ship,
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