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No need to panic. The virus is rarely transmitted from human to human or via air.

Cruise ships are a hot bed for diseases though: Many people in a confined space going to places with diseases that their body has no resistance against. So your best protection is simply not going near the ship.

On the topic of staff escaping: Given that the ship hasn’t been able to dock so far I highly doubt that’s true.

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vrek@programming.dev ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
I agree but to give some context to the staff escaping, this probably was started because one of the people airvaced to a hospital was a staff member. They didn’t “escape” they got sick and needed emergency medical treatment. I can believe someone heard a staff member was no longer on board and warped that into staff “escaping”.

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- FireRetardant@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  this source claims
  
  Authorities in Switzerland also said a former passenger who tested positive was being treated at a Zurich hospital. The passenger had left the ship at St Helena and it was unclear how he had travelled to Switzerland or which countries he might have passed through. Swiss authorities insisted there was “no risk” to the public
  
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  But a limited spread among close contacts has been observed in some previous outbreaks with the Andes strain, which has spread in South America, including Argentina, where the cruise trip started in March.
  
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  - vrek@programming.dev ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    I thought I read there was also a british man who was a member of the staff, I will look and try to get a source to back that up.
    
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    Nighed@feddit.uk ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    British in board doctor
    
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starlinguk@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
One of the women who got infected (she knew, her husband had already died and she was very ill) got onto a plane to Johannesburg and died in Johannesburg.

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- einkorn@feddit.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Did she get on a commercial plane by herself or was this a planned airlift to a hospital, though?
  
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  - bstix@feddit.dk ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    It was a commercial flight with 80 passengers. WHO is searching for them.
    
    Also, another patient from the ship is in a hospital in Switzerland. I have no idea how they got there, but I think it’s safe to say that the ship has not been isolated to begin with.
    
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    starlinguk@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    And a German is being airlifted to Düsseldorf, a Dutch person to somewhere in the Netherlands and a Brit to Britain.
    
    This entire thing would not have been a problem whatsoever if the ship had been quarantined and stayed quarantined. Something similar happened in 2018 and thanks to the measures taken only 30 people got infected.
    
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