Six crew members from the Ruby Princess have already been taken off the ship, including a 66-year-old man who was medically evacuated off earlier today.However there are now fears the more than 1,100 crew still on the ship could fall sick.
9 News reports more than 200 of the crew are already showing symptoms and are in self-isolation, and could be set to overwhelm NSW hospitals if they need to be evacuated for medical care.
Yes they should be sent to their home country so the home country could look after them.b But these crew members have no say in the direction of the cruise ship. The fact that they have had to stay in limbo for almost a month is very disheartening. Is it possible to quarantine +
Australia has a responsibility to help these crew members if they get very sick. In normal times Australians love cruising and love the efforts these crew members put in! Our cities love visiting cruise ships from an economic pov. Let’s help until they are safe to sail home.
These crews ships are going to be the death of us.
Stop catastrophising. Of the 200 sick, how many need hospitalisation? Crew being gentle young it’s lucky to be 5 crew. Stop spreading fear!!!
GladysB they can head to Christmas Island
Use it as a jail for non self distancing rule breakers
We need to help in anyway we can while looking after own. There must be a solution available by people a lot smarter than me in this area.
Looks like its time to utilize that old quarantine station island in Sydney harbor thats now a military facility...
How much does medical care cost on board? x200. We can take the boat as collateral
🤦They've already caused a lot of spread in NSW/Oz. Australians could miss out on urgent treatment if hospitals overwhelm with foreigners who should've gone home. Also other states should help.Why is it just sydneys problem? GladysB ? This will undo the work of flattening curve.
No thankyou
This is sad but our hospital’s cannot be burdened with foreign nationals. We need to protect our boarders and the safety of Australians.
Well get their home country to airlift them back to place of boarding. Australia has rescued hundreds of stranded travelers around the world so everyone can stemup as well.
GTFOH
The people who own these ships should be in jail !
Let me fix that headline - “NSW Hospitals are ready to provide care for stranded workers needing urgent treatment” health COVID19au
Send them home!
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Premier says Ruby Princess staff may have misled NSW HealthNSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian has pointed the finger at the Ruby Princess cruise ship, which unloaded several infected passengers in Sydney, warning staff onboard may have misled health authorities about the extent of illnesses in passengers. Several? How about hundreds? Gee try some real reporting please. doesn't alter the fact they were waved through even though sickness was onboard Massive cover up this - Slomo doing deals with old mates disgraceful
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Ruby Princess cruise 'will go down in history as a trigger' for COVID-19 woes | Sky News AustraliaSky News host Peter Gleeson says the Ruby Princess cruise ship will 'go down in history, when the post mortems are done, as being the real trigger' for many of Australia's community related transmissions of COVID-19.\n\nThe Ruby Princess debacle has resulted in around 10 per cent of all coronavirus cases in Australia, with the Hobart Mercury reporting a 'man in his eighties has died from COVID-19 in Hobart taking Tasmania's death toll from the global pandemic to two'.\n\nThe Hobart Mercury also reported the man had 'been a passenger on the Ruby Princess cruise ship'.\n\nAdoni Media Managing Director Leisa Goddard told Sky News host Peter Gleeson the Ruby Princess has been 'an absolute fiasco and all we've seen is a blame game between the NSW government and the Australian Border Force'.\n\nImage: Associated Press\n And everyone of those responsible for allowing people off Ruby Princess, unchecked, into the wider community ... will be brought to justice. skynews ABC NSW Australia Covid_19australia COVID19au 7News 9News auspol coronavirusaustralia Correct. Now take off your opinion hats and go do some actual journo work and ask the hard questions why this was allowed to happen. We know you won’t though, because the real boat threat according to Sky involves brown people. ms_dingo The infected people of this boat traveled across country to get home knowing they were a risk of causing more infections They should be held accountable
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Humanitarian call to repatriate Ruby Princess cruise ship crewPolice are urging foreign cruise ships floating off the NSW coast to immediately sail home rather than risk flooding the state's hospitals with coronavirus patients. 9News Don't threaten them ,unless there is Aussie on board get the Navy involved and escort them out of Australian waters and send the cruise company a bill. Grow some balls and turn the boat around we have already filled our hospitals with the infected passengers and now there’s going to be so many more infected thats been in contact with the passengers that were just allowed to walk straight of the boat.Start buying ventilators. Urging them? Secure our borders and grow some already.
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Premier says Ruby Princess staff may have misled NSW HealthNSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian has pointed the finger at the Ruby Princess cruise ship, which unloaded several infected passengers in Sydney, warning staff onboard may have misled health authorities about the extent of illnesses in passengers. Several? How about hundreds? Gee try some real reporting please. doesn't alter the fact they were waved through even though sickness was onboard Massive cover up this - Slomo doing deals with old mates disgraceful
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