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The Coral Princess cruise ship, which has at least 12 people infected with COVID-19 onboard and two dead from the disease, docked in Miami on Saturday.
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COVID-19, the coronavirus disease, shut down most of the cruise industry in March, but some ships were already at sea when the order came. As of March 31, Business Insider's Mark Matousek reported that ten ships were still sailing. Cases of the virus spread quickly on other cruise ships from the Princess line. The Diamond Princess, which docked in Japan in February, had 700 cases of COVID-19 and six deaths as passengers were kept on board. Similarly, the Grand Princess had an outbreak aboard its ship, and deboarded passengers were quarantined at a California military base.
Here's how the Coral Princess ended up in Miami.
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After getting more supplies in Barbados, on March 31 Princess Cruises announced a high number of people with "influenza-like symptoms," and guests were asked to self isolate in their rooms.
On April 2, seven guests and five crew members were confirmed to have COVID-19, for a total of 12 known infections on board.
There were 1,020 passengers and 878 crew member on the chip.
The ship then got permission to dock in Fort Lauderdale, but coast guard officials then blocked the ship due to "an unacceptable risk of medical emergency due to the inherent and high probability of transmission of COVID-19 aboard."
