Passengers to leave Australia after days stuck on Artania cruise ship

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PERTH: Hundreds of cruise ship passengers were due to board flights for Germany on Sunday (Mar 29), after spending days stranded at sea off the ...

A spokeswoman for Germany's Condor Airlines told AFP about 800 people would board four planes in the Western Australian capital, Perth, on Sunday evening bound for Frankfurt.AdvertisementAn Australian Border Force official told AFP the passengers - mostly German citizens, but also some French and Swiss nationals - were due to disembark the Artania Sunday afternoon and would be transported directly to the airport.

A WA Health spokeswoman said 12 passengers had been diagnosed with the novel coronavirus, with at least nine of them already transferred to hospitals in Perth. Cruise ships are responsible for nearly 500 cases of COVID-19 and at least five deaths in the country. The remaining passengers - almost 800 Australians and a handful of other nationalities - are scheduled to disembark tomorrow, the Australian Border Force official said.

 

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