

Typically, guests pay for quarantine costs, but the cruise line made a slightly different arrangement in this case, according to The Washington Post. “Our protocols are designed to flex up as needed and additional measures were implemented during the voyage, including mask requirements for guests,” the cruise line said. Sieferston also shared a photo that showed the names and room numbers of people who tested positive, which hung outside of the elevator on his floor. Passengers told KING 5 that they waited for hours for meals, weren’t properly isolated, and couldn’t reach medical staff on the ship.
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“They were overwhelmed, and they didn’t have a backup course in how to handle about 200 people affected with COVID. “They didn’t have enough staff to handle the emergency that was happening, period,” he said. He said he’s taken seven cruises since August 2021 and each trip had COVID-positive passengers, yet this one felt “chaotic.” Sieferston, a Nevada resident, tested positive on the ship and is now in quarantine at a hotel. “As soon as I got diagnosed with COVID, I did not feel safe,” Darren Sieferston, a passenger on the cruise from Miami to Seattle, told the news station. Carnival Cruise Line didn’t confirm how many people tested positive.

Multiple passengers told KING 5, an NBC affiliate in Seattle, that they’re staying in hotels around Seattle to quarantine after testing positive or being exposed to someone with COVID-19. – Passengers on a Carnival cruise that docked in Seattle on Tuesday said the ship was overwhelmed after more than 100 people tested positive for COVID-19.
