Four die on cruise ship grappling with Covid-19 off Panama

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Some 130 people on the ship are suffering from influenza-like symptoms.

Four passengers have died aboard a cruise ship off the coast of Panama with over 130 others suffering from influenza-like symptoms, at least two of whom have coronavirus, the vessel's operator said on Friday.

"The Health Ministry has not given permission for the ship to pass, and if they were to do tests on board and they were to come out positive, the ship would have to be in quarantine," Ricaurte Vasquez, the Panama Canal Authority's administrator, said Friday. Significant numbers of US, Canadian, Australian, UK and Dutch citizens are among passengers stuck on board, according to media reports from their respective countries.

Family members back home worried about older passengers on the ship. Neil Bedford told Reuters his British parents, aged 65 and 63, were staying in their rooms while the ship sat off Panama. Hayley Johnson, granddaughter of a 90-year-old man and 75-year-old woman on board, wrote on Twitter that she was especially worried about her grandmother, a Type 1 diabetic.

 

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