Trump says Canadians on two stranded cruise ships will be heading home

The U.S. Coast Guard has directed all cruise ships to remain at sea where they may be sequestered "indefinitely" during the coronavirus pandemic, but Trump said Canada is coming to get the Canadians from the MS Zaandam and its sister ship the Rotterdam.

According to the U.S. Coast Guard, cruise ships must also be prepared to send any severely ill passengers to the countries where the vessels are registered. Global Affairs Canada said in a statement that there are 97 Canadian passengers on the Zaandam and 150 Canadians on the Rotterdam. At this time, no COVID-19 cases have been confirmed among Canadian passengers.

Catherine McLeod, an Ottawa resident who was recently transferred to the Rotterdam from the Zaandam, said the captain came on the internal television system last night and "proposed a toast to world health and our safe return home."The Rotterdam captain "is a class act, so was the captain of the Zaandam," McLeod said in an email. "This guy has made some excellent speeches regarding his and the crew's devotion to getting us out of here healthy.

DeSantis maintained Florida's health care system is stretched too thin to take on the ships' coronavirus caseload, but he said he would accept the 49 Florida residents on board. More than two dozen cruise ships are either lined up at Port Miami and Port Everglades or waiting offshore, the Miami Herald reported. Most have only crew aboard, but several still carry passengers and are steaming toward ports in southern Florida. Carnival notified the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Tuesday that it has more than 6,000 passengers still at sea.

Can’t wait to watch people bash Trump for this...

bcbluecon Trump says but Trudeau is silent.

Make them go somewhere to isolate this is why we keep having to isolate people come back from their trips they shouldn’t have gone on and don’t isolate and the rest of us it the price. Don’t ask them MAKE them.

We don’t need more “cruise ship corona”. Keep em where they are 👍

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