A worker cleans a railing on the Grand Princess. The ship is expected to travel to Oakland to unload passengers after 21 people tested positive for coronavirus.
Photo: Michele Smith/Associated PressPrincess Cruises said Sunday its Grand Princess ship would travel to the port of Oakland to unload passengers in need of acute medical care and hospitalization.
On Saturday, the Grand Princess was lingering about 50 miles off the coast of San Francisco after 21 people tested positive for coronavirus. The Carnival Corp. owned ship has about 2,400 passengers and 1,100 crew members.
Following health screenings other passengers will be transferred to federally operated facilities for testing and isolation in California and other states, the company said. Crew members will be quarantined and treated aboard the vessel.
The ship was returning to San Francisco from a trip to Hawaii when the outbreak was detected. A man on the Grand Princess’s previous voyage, a San Francisco to Mexico round trip, died from exposure to the novel coronavirus, and dozens of passengers from that trip are still on board.
It is the second Princess Cruises voyage with an outbreak of coronavirus. Hundreds of people became infected with Covid-19 on the Diamond Princess when it docked in Japan in January. That ship was quarantined for two weeks.
After meeting Saturday with cruise industry leaders and Florida officials, Vice President Michael Pence said U.S. cruises will begin to enhance their entry and exit screenings and create new quarantine standards, among other measures, in the wake of the virus’s spread.
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