Digital Desk : A total of 143 passengers out of the 1,827 on board Mumbai Cordelia cruise ship returning to Mumbai from Goa have tested positive for coronavirus.
In addition to the 143 who tested positive for the contagion, 66 other travellers were already diagnosed with the infection, a senior Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) official said.
"The civic body has received RT-PCR test reports of all 1,827 passengers on board the Mumbai Cordelia cruise ship, which returned to Mumbai from Goa on Tuesday evening, and 143 of them have tested positive for COVID-19," said a senior health official of the BMC to a national daily.
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RT-PCR tests were conducted on all the 1,827 passengers on board the cruise ship after a crew member had tested positive for COVID-19.
The cruise ship was anchored at the International Cruise Terminal to allow health officials conduct the RT-PCR tests on all passengers, disallowing the people to step out of the ship until the Covid results were not out.
A total of five ambulances have been readied to ferry the infected persons to various quarantine centres in Mumbai.
Meanwhile a Seven-day home quarantine has been made mandatory for the passengers whose RT-PCR test reports have come out negative.
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