When Will Cruises Start Sailing Again? CDC Gives Tentative Summer Timeline After Long Pause
04/29/21 AT 8:12 AM
Over a year after issuing a No Sail order in the U.S. for the cruise industry, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is considering lifting the ban.
In a letter to the cruise industry sent late Wednesday that was obtained by USA Today, the agency said sailing could restart in U.S. waters by mid-summer.
The letter from Aimee Treffiletti, head of the CDC’s Maritime Unit within the Global Mitigation Task Force for COVID-19, read, in part: “We acknowledge that cruising will never be a zero-risk activity and that the goal of the CSO’s phased approach is to resume passenger operations in a way that mitigates the risk of COVID-19 transmission onboard cruise ships and across port communities.”