Covid on Singapore Cruise Ship Shows Perils of Resuming Tourism
Philip J. Heijmans and Kyunghee Park, Bloomberg News A passenger on board the docked Quantum of the Seas cruise ship, operated by Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd., on a room balcony at the Marina Bay Cruise Centre in Singapore, on Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2020. The ship is back in Singapore and those on board are confined to their cabins after a positive Covid-19 case was identified, cutting short what was meant to be a four-day cruise to nowhere. , Bloomberg
(Bloomberg) The optimism on display just two months ago when Singapore Transport Minister Ong Ye Kung pledged to reopen the city-state and its tourism-reliant economy has taken a beating after a possible local coronavirus case was found aboard one of Royal Caribbean Cruise Ltd.âs ships.
As Wednesday dragged on, some people on the ship, now back at the Marina Bay Cruise Centre, took to their balconies for fresh air in an all-too familiar 2020 sight another floating palace, docked but isolated as the arduous process of contact tracing and testing gets underway. | Travel